Light absorption in textured thin film silicon solar cells: A simple scalar scattering approach versus rigorous simulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 051102 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rockstuhl ◽  
S. Fahr ◽  
F. Lederer ◽  
F.-J. Haug ◽  
T. Söderström ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Scalar Scattering

Enhancement of Light Absorption in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells with Light Traping

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 816-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
沈宏君 SHEN Hong-jun ◽  
李 婷 LI Ting ◽  
卢辉东 LU Hui-dong ◽  
黄仙健 HUANG Xian-jian ◽  
李新兰 LI Xin-lan
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Thin Film Silicon

scholarly journals Enhanced light absorption in thin film silicon solar cells with Fourier-series based periodic nanostructures

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. A408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Guo ◽  
Dashuai Wang ◽  
Bang Liu ◽  
Shaorong Li ◽  
Xing Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Fourier Series ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Periodic Nanostructures ◽  
Thin Film Silicon

Light-trapping in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells with a Combination of Periodic and Randomly Textured Back-reflectors

2012 ◽  
Vol 1426 ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sambit Pattnaik ◽  
Nayan Chakravarty ◽  
Rana Biswas ◽  
D. Slafer ◽  
Vikram Dalal
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Nanoimprint Lithography ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Long Wavelength ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Back Reflectors ◽  
Back Reflector

ABSTRACTLight trapping is essential to harvest long wavelength red and near-infrared photons in thin film silicon solar cells. Traditionally light trapping has been achieved with a randomly roughened Ag/ZnO back reflector, which scatters incoming light uniformly through all angles, and enhances currents and cell efficiencies over a flat back reflector. A new approach using periodically textured photonic-plasmonic arrays has been recently shown to be very promising for harvesting long wavelength photons, through diffraction of light and plasmonic light concentration. Here we investigate the combination of these two approaches of random scattering and plasmonic effects to increase cell performance even further. An array of periodic conical back reflectors was fabricated by nanoimprint lithography and coated with Ag. These back reflectors were systematically annealed to generate different amounts of random texture, at smaller spatial scales, superimposed on a larger scale periodic texture. nc-Si solar cells were grown on flat, periodic photonic-plasmonic substrates, and randomly roughened photonic-plasmonic substrates. There were large improvements (>20%) in the current and light absorption of the photonic-plasmonic substrates relative to flat. The additional random features introduced on the photonic-plasmonic substrates did not improve the current and light absorption further, over a large range of randomization features.

Light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells via phase separated disordered nanopillars

Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 6651-6659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yidenekachew J. Donie ◽  
Michael Smeets ◽  
Amos Egel ◽  
Florian Lentz ◽  
Jan B. Preinfalk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Scattering ◽  
Polymer Blend ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Thin Film Photovoltaics

Disordered nanopillars fabricated by polymer blend lithography are used in light scattering reflectors to improve light absorption in thin-film photovoltaics.

Morphology Optimization of Silver Nanoparticles Used to Improve the Light Absorption in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Plasmonics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Duan ◽  
Meicheng Li ◽  
Trevor Mwenya ◽  
Yingfeng Li ◽  
Dandan Song
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Thin Film Silicon

An Algorithm for Finding Optimized Interface Morphologies in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

2012 ◽  
Vol 1426 ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jäger ◽  
M. Fischer ◽  
R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij ◽  
M. Zeman
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Feature Size ◽  
Scattering Model ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Scalar Scattering

ABSTRACTWe recently developed a scattering model based on the scalar scattering theory. In this contribution we present how we used the scattering model to investigate interface textures with optimized scattering properties. We used the simulated annealing algorithm to find optimized surface textures and applied the ASA device simulator to evaluate the influence of these optimized textures on the performance of thin film silicon solar cells. We found that the lateral feature size of the textures is crucial for efficient scattering of the incident light.

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