Title
Periodic and Random Substrate Textures for Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
IEEE Electron Devices Society
Abstract
A major limitation in current liquid-phase crystallized (LPC) silicon thin-film record solar cells is optical losses caused by their planar glass-silicon interface. In this study, silicon is grown on nanoimprinted periodically, as well as randomly textured glass substrates, and successfully implemented into state-of-the-art LPC silicon thin-film solar cells. Compared with an optimized planar reference device, both textures enhance absorption of light. Interlayer and process optimization allowed achieving a material quality comparable with the planar reference device. On the random texture, an open-circuit voltage above 630 mV was obtained, as well as an external quantum efficiency exceeding the planar reference device by +3 mA/cm2.
Start page
85
End page
90
Volume
7
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84994378606
PubMed ID
Source
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
ISSN of the container
21563381
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus