期刊
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
卷 210, 期 2, 页码 255-260出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228690
关键词
amorphous silicon; nanospheres; photonic crystal; photovoltaics; resonant dielectric structures; solar cells
资金
- Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion'' Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001293]
- Swiss Federal Energy Office
- Resnick Sustainability Institute
Resonant dielectric structures are a promising platform for addressing the key challenge of light trapping in thin-film solar cells. We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate efficiency enhancements in solar cells from dielectric nanosphere arrays. Two distinct amorphous silicon photovoltaic architectures were improved using this versatile light-trapping platform. In one structure, the colloidal monolayer couples light into the absorber in the near-field acting as a photonic crystal light-trapping element. In the other, it acts in the far-field as a graded index antireflection coating to further improve a cell which already included a state-of-the-art random light-trapping texture to achieve a conversion efficiency over 11%. For the near-field flat cell architecture, we directly fabricated the colloidal monolayer on the device through Langmuir-Blodgett deposition in a scalable process that does not degrade the active material. In addition, we present a novel transfer printing method, which utilizes chemical crosslinking of an optically thin adhesion layer to tether sphere arrays to the device surface. The minimally invasive processing conditions of this transfer method enable the application to a wide range of solar cells and other optoelectronic devices. [GRAPHICS] . False-color SEM image of an amorphous silicon solar cell with resonant spheres on top. (C) 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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