Journal
PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages 1672-1681Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2249
Keywords
solar cell; light-trapping; anti-reflective; texture; coating
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The influence of a retro-reflective texture cover on light in-coupling and light-trapping in thin film silicon solar cells is investigated. The texture cover is applied to the front glass of the cell and leads to a reflectance as low as r approximate to 3% by reducing the reflection at the air/glass interface and indirectly also reducing the reflections from the internal interfaces. For weakly absorbed light in the long wavelength range, the texture also enhances the light-trapping in the solar cell. We demonstrate an increase of the short circuit current density of exemplary investigated thin film silicon tandem solar cells by up to 0.95mAcm(-2) and of the conversion efficiency by up to 0.74% (absolute). For a planar microcrystalline solar cell, the enhancement of light-trapping was determined from the reduced reflection in the long wavelength range to be up to 17%, leading to an increase of the external quantum efficiency of up to 12%. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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