Title :
Design of multi-junction solar cells using PC1D
Author :
Meenakshi, S. ; Baskar, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EEE, Thiagarajar Coll. of Eng., Madurai, India
Abstract :
The main objective of this paper is to increase the efficiency of the multi-junction solar cell. In general, the efficiency of the multi-junction solar cell depends upon various design parameters such as material type, thickness of the layers, doping concentration, type of texturing and thickness of anti-reflective coating. The performances of the solar cells are determined by using one-dimensional solar cell simulation software PC1D. Batch mode of PC1D allows to rapidly performing optimization study for a particular parameter rather than varying the parameters frequently. In batch mode, for each input parameter, the range to be varied over, the number of different values and type of variations (logarithmically or linearly) are to be specified. The efficiency is observed under one-sun, AM1.5 solar radiation, and constant intensity of 0.1 w/cm2.
Keywords :
antireflection coatings; power engineering computing; solar cells; sunlight; AM1.5 solar radiation; PC1D batch mode; PC1D one-dimensional solar cell simulation software; antireflective coating thickness; constant intensity; design parameters; doping concentration; layer thickness; material type; multijunction solar cell efficiency; texturing type; Coatings; Doping; Junctions; Materials; Photonic band gap; Photonics; Photovoltaic cells; Air Mass1.5(AM1.5); Aluminium Gallium Arsenide(AlGaAs); Anti-Reflective Coating(ARC); External Quantum Efficiency(EQE); Gallium Arsenide(GaAs); Germanium(Ge); Internal Quantum Efficiency(IQE); Multi-junction(MJ); Reflectance(RFL);
Conference_Titel :
Energy Efficient Technologies for Sustainability (ICEETS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nagercoil
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6149-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICEETS.2013.6533424
