A non-metallic additive for diamond-wire-sawn multi-crystalline silicon texturing
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Wang He; Zhou Chunlan; Wang Wenjing
- Source
- E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 252, p 02067 (2021)
- Subject
- Environmental sciences
GE1-350
- Language
- English
French
- ISSN
- 2267-1242
Diamond-wire-sawn (DWS) technology has been widely used in the photovoltaic industry. When using the HF/HNO3/H2O acid etching solution for texturing of DWS multi-crystalline silicon(mc-Si), the aid of additive is required to improve the reactivity of the mc-Si surface in the acid texturing solution. It also needs to enhance the nucleation and uniform growth of the texturing surface. This paper proposes a non-metallic additive for DWS mc-Si texturing. Sodium polyacrylate is added to the HF/HNO3/H2O acid etching solution to reduce the reflectance of DWS mc-Si and improve surface morphology. Compared to the textured wafers without additive, the surface of the wafers using this method is uniformly distributed with pits whose size is 0.5 μm×1 μm. And the weighted average reflectance of the textured wafers can be reduced from 33.32% to 23.9% in the wavelength range of 350–1100 nm, with the lowest reflectance of 19.8% reached at 950 nm. It shows a promising application prospect.