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)
Koppel G.
Amkreutz D.
Sonntag P.
Yang G.
Van Swaaij R.
Isabella O.
Zeman M.
Becker C.
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
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
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