Optical modelling of single junction a-Si:H solar cells with textured interfaces

Author

Búc, D. ; Zeman, M. ; Metselaar, J.W.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Electron. Components Technol. & Mater., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1998

fDate

5-7 Oct 1998

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

206

Abstract

Optical simulations were carried out in order to understand the effect of scattering at textured interfaces on the optical properties of a single junction a-Si:H solar cell. We used an optical numerical simulator for rite calculation of the absorption profiles in the solar cell. A sensitivity study of the influence of the model scattering parameters on the quantum efficiency of the a-Si:H solar cells was carried out and the most sensitive parameters were determined. From the calculated absorption profiles we have determined the losses in the non-active layers and the gain in the intrinsic layer of the solar cell

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; hydrogen; light scattering; semiconductor device models; silicon; solar cells; Si:H; absorption profile; gain; loss; numerical simulation; optical model; optical properties; quantum efficiency; scattering parameters; single junction a-Si:H solar cell; textured interface; Absorption; Amorphous silicon; Light scattering; Numerical simulation; Optical devices; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Particle scattering; Photovoltaic cells; Scattering parameters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems, 1998. ASDAM '98. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Smolenice Castle

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4909-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASDAM.1998.730199

Filename

730199