Title
Light trapping and optical losses in microcrystalline Si and micromorph solar cells
Date Issued
01 December 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Vanecek M.
Springer J.
Poruba A.
Kluth O.
Repmann T.
Wyrsch N.
Meier J.
Shah A.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Abstract
We have developed the 3-dimensional optical model for thin film silicon solar cells (amorphous, macrocrystalline, single or multijunction) with nanorough surfaces/interfaces. For these cells the external quantum efficiency, short circuit current, total reflectance and all absorption losses can be computed taking into account roughness, angular distribution of scattered light, thicknesses and experimentally determined optical constants of all layers. The model gives very good agreement with the experimentally determined data for micro-crystalline silicon and micromorph (amorphous-microcrystalline silicon tandem) solar cells. Based on the analysis of optical losses and possible improvements in the materials properties, a roadmap for over 15% stable efficiency of micromorph solar cell has been suggested.
Start page
1527
End page
1532
Volume
B
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica Recubrimiento, Películas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-6344222011
ISBN of the container
9784990181604
Conference
Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
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