Single crystal and amorphous Ge for use in stand-alone and thin film tandem solar cells

Author

Sharp, Justin ; Lee, W.J. ; Umana-Membreno, G.A. ; Dell, J. ; Faraone, L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

156

Abstract

Thin film and single crystal germanium solar cells are of interest for use in low cost thermophotovoltaics [1,2] and in multijunction solar cells. Single crystal Ge substrates have been utilised for the growth of high-efficiency III-V concentrator solar cells which have achieved high efficiencies [3]. In this paper, we consider the use of crystalline Ge as bottom cell and substrate for growth of high efficiency II-VI multijunction solar cells and amorphous Ge for application in thin film II-VI tandem solar cells.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; III-V semiconductors; amorphous semiconductors; germanium; semiconductor junctions; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; thermophotovoltaic cells; thin film devices; Ge; II-VI multijunction solar cell; III-V concentrator solar cell; amorphous germanium; bottom cell; crystalline germanium; low cost thermophotovoltaics; single crystal germanium solar cell; single crystal germanium substrates; thin film tandem solar cells; Annealing; Sun; Surface treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials & Devices (COMMAD), 2012 Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

1097-2137

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3047-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMMAD.2012.6472407

Filename

6472407