Effect of perforated transparent electrodes on light transmittance and light scattering in substrates used for microcrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells

2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (7) ◽  
pp. 071909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Nasuno ◽  
Noriyoshi Kohama ◽  
Kazuhito Nishimura ◽  
Takashi Hayakawa ◽  
Hiroshi Taniguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Scattering ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells ◽  
Light Transmittance ◽  
Transparent Electrodes ◽  
Microcrystalline Silicon ◽  
Silicon Thin Film

scholarly journals Effect of Surface Morphology in ZnO:Al/Ag Back Reflectors for Flexible Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells on Light Scattering Properties

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 501-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hun Beak ◽  
Jeong-Chul Lee ◽  
Sang-Hyun Park ◽  
Jin-Soo Song ◽  
Kyung-Hoon Yoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Scattering ◽  
Surface Morphology ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells ◽  
Silicon Thin Film ◽  
Back Reflectors ◽  
Effect Of Surface

scholarly journals Light Scattering and Current Enhancement for Microcrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Aluminium-Induced Texture Glass Superstrates with Double Texture

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfeng Yin ◽  
Nasim Sahraei ◽  
Selvaraj Venkataraj ◽  
Sonya Calnan ◽  
Sven Ring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Optical Scattering ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells ◽  
Surface Topology ◽  
Microcrystalline Silicon ◽  
Silicon Thin Film ◽  
Wide Range

Microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) thin-film solar cells are processed on glass superstrates having both micro- and nanoscale surface textures. The microscale texture is realised at the glass surface, using the aluminium-induced texturing (AIT) method, which is an industrially feasible process enabling a wide range of surface feature sizes (i.e., 700 nm–3 μm) of the textured glass. The nanoscale texture is made by conventional acid etching of the sputter-deposited transparent conductive oxide (TCO). The influence of the resulting “double texture” on the optical scattering is investigated by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM) (studying the surface topology), haze measurements (studying scattering into air), and short-circuit current enhancement measurements (studying scattering into silicon). A predicted enhanced optical scattering efficiency is experimentally proven by a short-circuit current enhancementΔIscof up to 1.6 mA/cm2(7.7% relative increase) compared to solar cells fabricated on a standard superstrate, that is, planar glass covered with nanotextured TCO. Enhancing the autocorrelation length (or feature size) of the AIT superstrates might have the large potential to improve theμc-Si:H thin-film solar cell efficiency, by reducing the shunting probability of the device while maintaining a high optical scattering performance.

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