Optoelectronic simulation and optimization of unconstrained four terminal amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon tandem solar cell

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William Taube Navaraj
Beerendra Kumar Yadav
Anil Kumar
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[1] CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute,Sensors and Nanotechnology Group
[2] Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR),Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering Division, College of Science and Engineering
[3] University of Glasgow,undefined
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Journal of Computational Electronics | 2016年 / 15卷
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TCAD; Silicon tandem solar cells; Amorphous silicon; Crystalline silicon; Optimization;
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Optoelectronic two dimensional technology computer aided design simulation of unconstrained four terminal hydrogenated amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon (a-Si:H/c-Si) tandem solar cells have been carried out. Tandem solar cell approach is one of the promising approaches to achieve high efficiency solar cell by reducing lattice thermalization loss, but needs extensive optimization as the efficiency depends on a number of parameters. The optoelectronic properties of various materials involved have been taken into consideration and a range of parameters such as top anti reflection coating (ARC) thickness, bottom ARC thickness, a-Si:H solar cell thickness, optical connecting layer thickness, a-Si:H solar cell doping, crystalline silicon solar cells doping etc. have been optimized. The optimization resulted in a simulated efficiency of 19.29 % for an untextured planar solar cell.
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