• DocumentCode
    1772066
  • Title

    Absorption enhancement and electrical transport in thin-film solar cells with randomly rough textures

  • Author

    Kowalczewski, Piotr ; Bozzola, Angelo ; Liscidini, M. ; Andreani, Lucio Claudio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    With rigorous electro-optical calculations we study randomly rough silicon solar cells approaching the Lambertian Limit of absorption. We determine the efficiency dependence on the absorber thickness and discuss the role of surface recombination.
  • Keywords
    absorption; elemental semiconductors; silicon; solar cells; surface recombination; thin film devices; Lambertian limit of absorption; absorption enhancement; electrical transport; randomly rough silicon solar cells; randomly rough textures; surface recombination; thin-film solar cells; Absorption; Optical device fabrication; Optical scattering; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989752