Thermal characterisation of novel crystalline semitransparent solar cell

This paper presents the structure of a novel semitransparent solar cell and its thermal behaviour, which cell can be used for building integrated applications. The crystalline self-made test cells can be manufactured using basic semiconductor technological steps, arbitrary pattern of holes can be etched. The values of the thermal dependences are similar to the values of the non-transparent solar cell, thus revealing that technological steps applied in order to achieve transparency do not affect the thermal parameters of the solar cells.