Simulation research of biphasic silicon thin film solar cell of different crystalline volume fraction

Author

Yuan, Ning-Yi ; Wang, Shu-Bo ; Xiu-Qin Wang ; Ding, Jian-Ning ; Ye, Feng ; Zhang, Jia-Li ; Chen, Hong-Min

Author_Institution

Center of Low-dimension Mater., Micro/Nano Device & Syst., Jiangsu Polytech. Univ., Changzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

10-11 May 2010

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

75

Abstract

Optical and electrical parameters of biphasic silicon with different crystalline volume fraction (fc) were estimated via effective medium approximation method and experimental results. Then software AMPS-1D has been performed to investigate the influence of fc on biphasic silicon as the intrinsic layer on the performance of biphasic silicon single-junction and amorphous silicon/biphasic silicon double-junction solar cells. According to the simulation results, biphasic silicon thin film with approximate 50 % fc is suitable to serve as the intrinsic layer of the thin film solar cells, which can achieve the highest conversion efficiency.

Keywords

Amorphous materials; Amorphous silicon; Crystallization; Degradation; Laboratories; Materials science and technology; Optical films; Photovoltaic cells; Power engineering and energy; Semiconductor thin films; AMPS-1D; biphasic silicon; crystalline volume fraction; effective medium approximation method; solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optics Photonics and Energy Engineering (OPEE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5234-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5236-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OPEE.2010.5508102

Filename

5508102