Title :
Indium Gallium Antimonide a better bottom subcell layer in III?V multijunction solar cells
Author :
Raja Penumaka;Bibek Tiwari;Indranil Bhattacharya;Simon Foo
Author_Institution :
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, 38501, USA
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An approach to modeling of III-V multijunction solar cell utilizing InGaSb as the bottom subcell layer and altering the band gaps of InGaP and InGaAs, a novel triple junction, has been presented which executes the ability to capture photons for wider range of the solar radiation spectrum than state-of-art multijunction designs and projects a theoretical efficiency of 34.33% under one sun concentration. InGaSb with a direct band gap of 0.54eV, internal quantum efficiency of more than 80% and the ability to capture photons in the near and far infrared zone up to 2200 nm has been demonstrated.
Keywords :
"Photonic band gap","Indium gallium arsenide","Photonics","Indexes","Junctions","Metals","Optimization"
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 IEEE 42nd
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356340