Extension of PV Optics to include front metallization

Author

Guhabiswas, Debraj ; Sopori, Bhushan ; Rivero, Rene ; Ravindra, N.M.

Author_Institution

Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

16-21 June 2013

Abstract

PV Optics is an optical design package that was developed about a decade ago and has been extensively used since then for design of c-Si, and multijunction a-Si solar cells by researchers and engineers. However, this software did not have the capability to include the front metallization into the device structure. We have now developed version 3.0 of PV Optics, which overcomes this limitation and can be used for most of the current electrode designs for crystalline Si solar cells. A summary of this addition along with the results of a detailed study of the effect of front electrode architecture on the performance of (100) textured monocrystalline cells have been presented here.

Keywords

electrodes; metallisation; power engineering computing; silicon; solar cells; PV optics extension; Si; crystalline silicon solar cells; electrode architecture; electrode designs; front metallization; multijunction a-silicon solar cells; optical design package; textured monocrystalline cells; Electrodes; Fingers; Metallization; Optics; Photovoltaic cells; Silicon; algorithm development; crystalline materials; optical simulations; ray-tracing; silicon; solar cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2013 IEEE 39th

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744295

Filename

6744295