Title :
Modeling the haze of highly textured transparent conducting oxide
Author :
Lin, Chienchung ; Liu, Wei-Lin ; Hsieh, Chi-Ying
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonic Syst., Nat. Chiao-Tung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
One of the critical factors to improve the efficiency of thin film solar cell is the haze of transparent conducting oxide (TCO), which suffers low values at longer wavelength (>1μm) region. Recently several different highly textured TCO were presented with high haze at near IR region, however, suitable modeling is not established yet. In this paper, we propose a semi-empirical model, which is based on scalar scattering theory, for these highly textured surfaces and achieve good results in numerical fitting.
Keywords :
solar cells; thin films; highly textured transparent conducting oxide; scalar scattering theory; thin film solar cell; Optical surface waves; Photovoltaic cells; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Surface fitting; Surface roughness; Surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2010 35th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5890-5
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2010.5617025