• DocumentCode
    2447341
  • Title

    Calculation of amorphous silicon solar cell parameters with different doping levels

  • Author

    Sinha, S.P. ; Dubey, G.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Kohima Sci. Coll., Nagaland, India
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    1205
  • Abstract
    Amorphous silicon solar cell efficiency has stagnated at 13.6% since the last decade. Extensive experimental and theoretical works have been done to improve this efficiency by increasing short circuit current, open circuit voltage and fill factor. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to calculate these parameters with different doping levels and to optimise them to get the best results. This has been done by choosing a proper value of barrier potentials at the p-i and i-n junctions. It has been noticed that doping levels affect the parameters. The present analysis has resulted in an increased value of cell parameters which will help in improving the cell efficiency
  • Keywords
    amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; p-n junctions; semiconductor device models; semiconductor doping; silicon; solar cells; 13.6 percent; Si; amorphous silicon solar cell parameters calculation; barrier potentials; doping levels; fill factor; i-n junction; open circuit voltage; p-i junction; short circuit current; Amorphous silicon; Circuits; Conducting materials; Conductive films; Doping; Photonic band gap; Photovoltaic cells; Physics; Semiconductor films; Semiconductor materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Energy Conversion Engineering Conference and Exhibit, 2000. (IECEC) 35th Intersociety
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    1-56347-375-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECEC.2000.870932
  • Filename
    870932