Optical modeling of a-Si:H based solar cells on textured substrates

Author

Tao, G. ; Zeman, M. ; Metselaar, J.W.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Dec 1994

Firstpage

666

Abstract

The authors have developed a new GENPRO2 computer program package to meet the needs of optical modeling of a-Si:H based solar cells on textured substrates. The new program takes into account the light scattering effects at the rough interfaces, allowing the accurate optical modeling of a-Si:H based solar cells with textured substrates. The authors present the state-of-the-art of optical modeling and their recent results on textured solar cells with different structures, such as: glass/TCO/p-i-n(a-Si:H)/Ag, ITO/p-i-n(a-Si:H)/Ag/SS, tandem cells and cells with TCO/Ag back contacts

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; electronic engineering computing; elemental semiconductors; hydrogen; light scattering; physics computing; power engineering computing; semiconductor device models; semiconductor doping; silicon; software packages; solar cells; surface texture; GENPRO2 computer program; ITO/p-i-n(a-Si:H)/Ag/SS; Si:H; TCO/Ag back contacts; a-Si:H solar cells; computer simulation; glass/TCO/p-i-n(a-Si:H)/Ag; light scattering; optical modeling; rough interfaces; state-of-the-art; tandem cells; textured substrates; Light scattering; Optical computing; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Packaging; Photovoltaic cells; Solar power generation; Solids;

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.1994.520049

Filename

520049