Development of a 1.0 eV (GaIn)(NAs) solar cell

Author

Baur, C. ; Bett, A.W. ; Dimroth, F. ; van Riesen, S. ; Kunert, B. ; Traversa, M. ; Volz, K. ; Stolz, W.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Solar Energy Syst., Freiburg, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

18-18 May 2003

Firstpage

677

Abstract

(GaIn)(NAs) with a bandgap of 1.0 eV is an interesting material for the use in 4-junction solar cells in order to increase the efficiency under the AM0-spectrum. n-i-p- and p-i-n-homojunctions were grown in an AIX200 MOVPE reactor. Solar cells were fabricated using a technology normally applied to GaAs solar cells. An external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 30% was measured for the p-i-n-homojunctions. An improvement was found after annealing of the samples. The annealing step improves the quality of the p-doped emitter while no improvement was seen for the n-doped base material. The V/sub oc/ and I/sub sc/ values increase from /spl sim/370 mV to /spl sim/520 mV and /spl sim/9.8 mA/cm/sup 2/ to 15.6 mA/cm/sup 2/, respectively. However, the fill factor decreased down to 38% after the annealing. Changes in the growth process lead to maximum EQE values of over 60% resulting in a maximum efficiency of 4.3% for AM1.5 g.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MOCVD; annealing; energy gap; gallium compounds; indium compounds; semiconductor epitaxial layers; semiconductor growth; short-circuit currents; solar cells; vapour phase epitaxial growth; (GaIn)(NAs); 30 percent; 4-junction solar cell; AIX200 MOVPE reactor; AM0-spectrum; annealing; bandgap; external quantum efficiency; fill factor; growth process; n-doped base material; n-i-p-homojunction; open-circuit voltage; p-doped emitter; p-i-n-homojunction; short-circuit current;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka, Japan

Print_ISBN

4-9901816-0-3

Type

conf

Filename

1305372