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SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2021.106830
Keywords
Heterojunction; Solar cell; Electron transport layer; Back surface field layer; Spin coating; SCAPS
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- ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and IT, Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh
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This article presents an experimental and simulation study of a novel heterostructure of CuO-based solar cells, showing optimized performance and theoretical validation of experimental photovoltaic parameters. The optimized solar cell exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 12.09% with specific parameters.
In this article, the experimental and simulation study of a novel heterostructure (ITO/ZnO/CuO/ V2O5/Ag) of the cupric oxide (CuO)-based solar cells have been presented. The heterojunction of the CuO-based solar cell was fabricated using an inexpensive and environmentally benign sol-gel spin coating technique. The structural properties of the fabricated solar cell were studied using an X-ray diffractometer and a scanning electron microscope. The simulation study of the designed CuO-based heterojunction solar cell was conducted by the SCAPS-1D simulator. The experimental photovoltaic parameters were theoretically validated. The performance of the solar cell was optimized through the further numerical investigations of the effect of thickness and carrier concentration of CuO absorber and vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) back surface field (BSF) layer, defect density at CuO absorber and ETL/absorber interface layer and optical loss at the front surface of the solar cell. The optimized solar cell exhibited a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.09% with V-OC, J(SC), and FF of 0.748 V, 24 mA/cm(2), and 67.4%, respectively.
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