Title
Facing the challenge of liquid phase crystallizing silicon on textured glass substrates
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
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
541
End page
544
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048487612
ISBN
9781509056057
Source
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2017
Sponsor(s)
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of M. Krüger and H. Rhein, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB), in solar cell preparation. The German Federal 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).
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