Journal
PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 195-203Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pip.951
Keywords
Antireflection; Silicon; Moth-eye; Submicron; Surface Texturing; Subwavelength
Funding
- EPSRC [EP/F029624/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F029624/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Nanostructured moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells are simulated using rigorous coupled wave analysis and compared to traditional thin film coatings. The design of the moth-eye arrays is optimized for application to a laboratory cell (air silicon interface) and an encapsulated cell (EVA-silicon interface), and the optimization accounts for the solar spectrum incident on the silicon interface in both cells, and the spectral response of both types of cell. The optimized moth-eye designs are predicted to outperform an optimized double layer thin film coating by approximately 2% for the laboratory cell and approximately 3% for the encapsulated cell. The predicted performance of the silicon moth-eye under encapsulation is particularly remarkable as it exhibits losses of only 0.6% compared to an ideal AR surface. (C) Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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