Title
Facing the challenge of liquid phase crystallizing silicon on textured glass substrates
Date Issued
18 November 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
A major limitation in current liquid phase crystallized (LPC) silicon thin-film record solar cells are optical losses caused by their planar glass-silicon interface. In this study, silicon is grown on nanoimprinted periodically as well as on randomly textured glass substrates and successfully implemented into state-of-the-art LPC silicon thin-film solar cell stacks. By systematically varying every layer the whole sample stack is optimized regarding its anti-reflection ability. Compared to an optimized planar reference device, a reduction of reflection losses by -3.5% (absolute) on the random and by -9.4% (absolute) on the periodic texture has been achieved in the wavelength range of interest.
Start page
672
End page
677
Volume
2016-November
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85003678361
ISSN of the container
01608371
ISBN of the container
9781509027248
Conference
Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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