Title
AlGaSb based solar cells grown on GaAs by molecular beam epitaxy
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Vadiee E.
Zhang C.
Faleev N.N.
Addamane S.
Wang S.
Balakrishnan G.
Honsberg C.B.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
A goal for concentrating photovoltaics is to realize efficiencies over 50%. Recent 4J bonded solar cells show a path to such high efficiency devices by separately growing the top and bottom solar cells. Present experimental devices use InP-based materials for the bottom junctions. III-Sb solar cells can be good candidates for bottom solar cells. Sb-containing III-V alloys have shown high electron mobility, wide band gap range including small band gaps, flexible band alignment, and small effective electron mass [1]. In addition, GaSb alloys can be grown with low defect densities on GaAs. This paper investigates GaSb-based solar cells. We show AlGaSb based solar cells grown directly on semi-insulator GaAs (001) substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). Device and structural investigations have been performed to assess the electrical properties and material quality. Devices in the GaSb material system show Woc of 0.30, a very high value for a low band gap solar cell. To control the device properties, GaSb based solar cells grown on GaAs (100) substrates were compared to the devices grown on GaSb substrates.
Start page
1498
End page
1503
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048484293
ISBN
9781509056057
ISBN of the container
978-150905605-7
Conference
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2017
Sponsor(s)
This material is based upon work primarily supported by the Engineering Research Center Program of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy under NSF Cooperative Agreement No. EEC-1041895. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation or Department of Energy. We also gratefully acknowledge the use of facilities within the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University.
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