Preparation of silver-coated glass frit and its application in silicon solar cells

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/7/078110

Abstract A simple electroless plating process was employed to prepare silver-coated glass frits for solar cells. The surface of the glass frits was modified with polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP) before the electroless plating process. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), and x-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the PVP modified glass frits and investigate the mechanism of the modification process. It was found that the PVP molecules adsorbed on the glass frit surface and reduced the silver ions to the silver nanoparticles. Through epitaxial growth, these nanoparticles were uniformly deposited onto the surface of the glass frit. Silicon solar cells with this novel silver coating exhibited a photoelectric conversion efficiency increase of 0.33%. Compared with the electroless plating processes, this method provides a simple route to prepare silver-coated glass frits without introducing impurity ions.

Keywords: electroless plating silver nanoparticle glass frit solar cell

Received: 07 December 2015
Revised: 11 March 2016
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PACS:	81.15.Pq	(Electrodeposition, electroplating)
	78.56.-a	(Photoconduction and photovoltaic effects)
	73.40.Cg	(Contact resistance, contact potential)
	73.50.-h	(Electronic transport phenomena in thin films)

Corresponding Authors: Biyuan Li
E-mail: lylby917@163.com

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Feng Xiang(向锋), Biyuan Li(李碧渊), Yingfen Li(黎应芬), Jian Zhou(周健), Weiping Gan(甘卫平) Preparation of silver-coated glass frit and its application in silicon solar cells 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 078110

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