Performance enhancement methods of an ultra-thin silicon solar cell using different shapes of back grating and angle of incidence light

Heidarzadeh, Hamid; Tavousi, Alireza

doi:10.1016/j.mseb.2018.12.025

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“…The angular photocurrent response can be explained by the polarization angle effect. At the incident angle (β) = 0°, the light is nearly fully transmitted into the absorber without any reflection 18 . At β = 30°, the absorption enhancement is due to the increment of the optical path length in addition to the angular scattering from the two NWs.…”

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“…The difference between the J ph according to the TE and TM modes is due to the asymmetry of the two NWs in y-axis and x-axis. In this context, the tilted incident angle will increases the influence of the asymmetry of the NWs 18 .…”

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“…The difference between the according to the TE and TM modes is due to the asymmetry of the two NWs in y-axis and x-axis. In this context, the tilted incident angle will increases the influence of the asymmetry of the NWs 18 .

Figure 6 ( a ) Schematic diagram of the optimized design with NWs with an oblique incidence; and ( b ) the angular photocurrent response under TE and TM incidences for the two NWs C-Si-SCs.…”

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Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

Elrabiaey

Hussein

Hameed

et al. 2020

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A novel design of thin-film crystalline silicon solar cell (TF C-Si-SC) is proposed and numerically analyzed. The reported SC has 1.0 µm thickness of C-Si with embedded dielectric silicon dioxide nanowires (NWs). The introduced NWs increase the light scattering in the active layer which improves the optical path length and hence the light absorption. The SC geometry has been optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique to improve the optical and electrical characteristics. The suggested TF C-Si-SC with two embedded NWs offers photocurrent density ($${J}_{ph}$$ J ph ) of 32.8 mA cm−2 which is higher than 18 mA cm−2 of the conventional thin film SC with an enhancement of 82.2%. Further, a power conversion efficiency of 15.9% is achieved using the reported SC.

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Figure 6 ( a ) Schematic diagram of the optimized design with NWs with an oblique incidence; and ( b ) the angular photocurrent response under TE and TM incidences for the two NWs C-Si-SCs.…”

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Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

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Hussein

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“…The light path length was enhanced within the absorber region by using the DBR. They reported 20% of cell efficiency from 3 µm thick Si solar cells [8]. Gevorkian et al theoretically presented the light transport of 1D diluted photonic crystal.…”

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Photonic band gap analysis of 1D TiO₂/SiO₂ photonic crystals using plane wave method for thin film solar cell applications

Dubey¹,

Someswararao²,

Saravanan³

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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The properties of photonic crystals that allow or inhibit the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves in between photonic band gap (PBG) regimes have proved to be significant. In this work, we investigated the PBG analysis of one-dimensional TiO2/SiO2 photonic crystal using plane wave method (PWM). The PBG width depends of on the various optical parameters such as lattice constant (Λ), center wavelength (λc), thickness of the layers (d), dielectric constant (ε) and refractive indices (n). Among various parameters, the center wavelength (300-1100nm), the thickness of TiO2 (28-103 nm) and SiO2 (51-189 nm) layers were optimized for the tuned bandgap. The obtained results revealed that the PBG shifting towards the lower frequency region and reducing the size due to the increment of center wavelength and thicknesses. This result is useful for the understanding the way of photon propagation within artificial structure and it could be possible for the better back reflector in thin film solar cells.

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“…There is still a lack of studies understanding the adoption of the CIGS module's characteristics and improvement for BIPV applications effectively. 40,41 Such issues have been explored by the literature studies [42][43][44][45] to identify the unexpected reduction in power generation regarding angle-dependent losses. Geisemeyer et al 46 pointed out that the angle-dependent loss could be a major issue with practical PV generation performance.…”

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Performance evaluation of flexible CIGS modules based on operational data under outdoor conditions

Lee

Kim

et al. 2021

Energy Science & Engineering

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Performance enhancement methods of an ultra-thin silicon solar cell using different shapes of back grating and angle of incidence light

Cited by 28 publications

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Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

Photonic band gap analysis of 1D TiO₂/SiO₂ photonic crystals using plane wave method for thin film solar cell applications

Performance evaluation of flexible CIGS modules based on operational data under outdoor conditions

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Performance enhancement methods of an ultra-thin silicon solar cell using different shapes of back grating and angle of incidence light

Cited by 28 publications

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Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin film solar cell with embedded dielectric nanowires

Photonic band gap analysis of 1D TiO2/SiO2 photonic crystals using plane wave method for thin film solar cell applications

Performance evaluation of flexible CIGS modules based on operational data under outdoor conditions

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Photonic band gap analysis of 1D TiO₂/SiO₂ photonic crystals using plane wave method for thin film solar cell applications