• DocumentCode
    2924096
  • Title

    A performance simulation for the n+pp+ BSF and the bifacial silicon solar cells with additional irradiation from the backside of the cells

  • Author

    Matsukuma, Kunihiro ; Morita, Keiichi ; Tsukuda, Kazuhisa ; Shigeta, Hideaki

  • Author_Institution
    Kumamoto Inst. of Technol., Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    5-9 Dec 1994
  • Firstpage
    1417
  • Abstract
    In order to design high output power of the n+pp+ BSF solar cells and the n+pn+ transcells with both irradiation on the cells as for the bifacial cells, an exact analytical simulation program have been developed. The simulation revealed that output power of the transcell increases with the area ratio of the rear n+ collector. The simulations also revealed that additional reflected diffusive sunlight of 0.9 Sun on the rear transcell gives 30 mW/cm2 and the transcell with even a short lifetime of 10 μs and with the reflected diffusive sunlight of 0.3 gives 20 mW/cm2 and output power of the n+pp+ BSF solar cell fairly increases with the reflected diffusive sunlight
  • Keywords
    carrier lifetime; electronic engineering computing; elemental semiconductors; minority carriers; p-n heterojunctions; power engineering computing; semiconductor device models; silicon; solar cells; 10 mus; Si; backside irradiation; bifacial solar cells; computer simulation; lifetime; n+pn+ transcells; n+pp+ BSF solar cells; output power; performance simulation; rear n+ collector; reflected diffusive sunlight; semiconductor; Charge carrier processes; Current density; Electrodes; Electron emission; Equivalent circuits; Integral equations; Photovoltaic cells; Silicon; Temperature; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 1994., Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1994, 1994 IEEE First World Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Waikoloa, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1460-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCPEC.1994.520214
  • Filename
    520214