Pulsed laser ejection of single-crystalline III-V solar cells from GaAs substrates
Social Science Research Network(2023)
Abstract
The best III-V solar cells start out as single-crystalline multilayers on GaAs substrates. Separating these multilayers from their growth substrate enables higher performance and wafer reuse, which are both critical for terrestrial III-V solar cell viability. Here, we remove rigidly bonded, 16 mm2 3 3.5 mm thick devices from a GaAs sub-strate using an unfocused Nd:YAG laser pulse. The pulse is absorbed by a low-band-gap, lattice-matched layer below the device, driving an ablation event that ejected the crystalline multilayer from the substrate. Minutes of selective wet-chemical etching and device finishing yield a 0.1 cm2 device with a 17.4% power conversion effi-ciency and open-circuit voltage of 1.07 V, using AM1.5 direct with no anti-reflection coating. We show that the performance is compa-rable to similar cells produced via conventional processes. We discuss unique process characteristics, such as the potential to sepa-rate wafer-sized solar cells per laser pulse.
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Key words
III-V,single crystals,thin films,solar cells,laser liftoff
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