Patent ID: 8227289

Claim:
A method for producing a single crystal silicon solar cell, the solar cell including a transparent insulator substrate and a single crystal silicon layer arranged over the transparent insulator substrate and acting as a light conversion layer, the method comprising at least the steps of: preparing the transparent insulator substrate and a single crystal silicon substrate having a first conductivity type; implanting at least one of hydrogen ions and rare gas ions into the single crystal silicon substrate through an ion implanting surface thereof to form an ion implanted layer in the single crystal silicon substrate; conducting a surface activating treatment for at least one of: the ion implanting surface of the single crystal silicon substrate; and at least one surface of the transparent insulator substrate; bonding the ion implanting surface of the single crystal silicon substrate and the transparent insulator substrate to each other, in a manner that the surface(s) subjected to the surface activating treatment is/are used as a bonding surface(s); applying an impact to the ion implanted layer to mechanically delaminate the single crystal silicon substrate thereat at room temperature to leave a single crystal silicon layer; forming a plurality of diffusion regions having a second conductivity type at the delaminated surface side of the single crystal silicon layer, which conductivity type is different from the first conductivity type, in a manner that a plurality of p-n junctions are formed at least in the plane direction, and that the plurality of first conductivity-type regions and the plurality of second conductivity-type regions are present at the delaminated surface of the single crystal silicon layer; forming a plurality of first individual electrodes on the plurality of first conductivity-type regions of the single crystal silicon layer, respectively, and a plurality of second individual electrodes on the plurality of second conductivity-type regions, respectively; and forming a first collector electrode for connecting the plurality of first individual electrodes to one another and a second collector electrode for connecting the plurality of second individual electrodes to one another, wherein the transparent insulator substrate is made of any one of crystallized glass, borosilicate glass, and soda-lime glass.