期刊
IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS
卷 2, 期 3, 页码 229-235出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2180514
关键词
Light trapping; solar cells; thin-film silicon; transparent conductive oxides (TCOs)
资金
- Swiss Federal Office for Energy (OFEN) [101191]
The quest for increased performances in thin-film silicon micromorph tandem devices nowadays requires an increase of current density. This can be achieved with thin cells by combining both robust cell design and efficient light management schemes. In this paper, we identify three key requirements for the transparent conductive oxide electrodes. First, strong light scattering into large angles is needed on the entire useful wavelength range: A front electrode texture with large enough features is shown to grant a high total current (typically > 26 mA/cm2 with a 2.4-mu m-thick absorber material), while sharp features are reported to allow for high top cell current (> 13 mA/cm2) and reduced reflection at the ZnO/Si interface. Second, sufficiently smooth substrate features are needed to guarantee a high quality of the silicon active material, ensuring good and stable electrical properties (typically Voc around 1.4 V). Third, conduction and transparency of electrodes must be cleverly balanced, requiring high transparent conductive oxide mobility (similar to 50 cm(2)/V/s) to maintain the sheet resistance below 30 Omega/sq while keeping absorption as low as possible. Optimization of these three key requirements using ZnO electrodes allowed us to realize high-efficiency micromorph devices with 13.5% initial and 11.5% stabilized efficiency.
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