Firstly, thanks a lot for inviting me to this session, but this topic is utterly out of my research field, so that makes me unable to present scientific feedback. Congratulations for your success.
Wait , What !!!! in what context Maytham !!! I will presume Solar panels/cells.
A substrate is extremely important for especially in CMOS devices, we commonly have p-substrate , on which we have the n-well for PMOS or directly use this for channel creation for NMOS .
Obviously , the electron mobility is higher than hole so it creates a channel between Source and Drain in NMOS .
Same understanding goes with your devices that should absorb photons and convert to electrons . So here P-substrate is the bulk .