We report in this thesis the effect of the processing temperature on the power conversion efficiency of a solar cell. From our study we found that the temperature used for p-type dopant diffusion, rapid thermal annealing and contact fabrication can have substantial influence on the performance of a solar cell. The bets fabrication parameters for our system are obtained from detail studies by using various fabrication temperatures in different stages. In addition, we also studied the effect of adding CdSe nanoparticles to the solar cell during fabrication process on the performance of the solar cell. We found that, as CdSe has very good light absorption efficiency, adding CdSe nanoparticles to the solar can improve the light conversion efficiency of a Si-based solar cell.