Title
Mitigating optical losses in crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass
Date Issued
26 November 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Eisenhauer D.
Becker C.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass provide efficiencies up to 14.2 %. While open-circuit voltage and fill factor are already comparable to wafer-based devices, short-circuit current density is reduced due to incomplete light absorption. This paper analyzes the losses of current device designs in experiment and one-dimensional simulations, revealing the low absorber thickness of 15-20 μm as well as the planar glass-silicon interface as the main cause of non-absorption. Interface textures, in particular a sinusoidal texture and a smooth anti-reflective three-dimensional (SMART) texture, are discussed concerning their potential to mitigate these losses, allowing to reduce losses at the glass-silicon interface by at least 40% relative. Taking the electronic interface quality into account, the SMART texture is identified as the most promising texture for light management in liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass.
Start page
309
End page
313
Number
8548223
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Recubrimiento, Películas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85059911144
ISBN of the container
978-153868529-7
Conference
2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
Sponsor(s)
The German ministry of education and research (BMBF) is acknowledged for funding the research activities of the Young Investigator Group ‘Nano-SIPPE’ at HZB in the program NanoMatFutur (no. 03X5520). The authors thank Dr. Klaus Jäger and Dr. Daniel Amkreutz for fruitful discussions. GP Solar is acknowledged for providing the Alkatex IPA-free texturing agent. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - 03X5520 - BMBF
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