The Value Proposition for High Lifetime (p-type) and Thin Silicon Materials in Solar PV Applications

Alan Goodrich; Michael Woodhouse; Peter Hacke

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318267

The Value Proposition for High Lifetime (p-type) and Thin Silicon Materials in Solar PV Applications

Alan Goodrich, Michael Woodhouse, Peter Hacke

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Abstract

Most silicon PV road maps forecast a continued reduction in wafer thickness, despite rapid declines in the primary incentive for doing so - polysilicon feedstock price. Another common feature of most silicon-technology forecasts is the quest for ever-higher device performance at the lowest possible costs. The authors present data from device-performance and manufacturing- and system-installation cost models to quantitatively establish the incentives for manufacturers to pursue advanced (thin) wafer and (high efficiency) cell technologies, in an age of reduced feedstock prices. This analysis exhaustively considers the value proposition for high lifetime (p-type) silicon materials across the entire c-Si PV supply chain.

Original language	American English
Pages	3238-3241
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318267 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318267
State	Published - 2012
Event	38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: 3 Jun 2012 → 8 Jun 2012

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Conference	38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	3/06/12 → 8/06/12

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See CP-6A20-55477 for preprint

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NREL/CP-6A20-56932

Keywords

bulk lifetime
Czochralski process
manufacturing cost
monocrystalline silicon

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