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Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Despeisse, Matthieu  
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Boccard, Mathieu  
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Battaglia, Corsin  
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2012
2012 38Th Ieee Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (Pvsc)
38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)

In Thin Film Silicon (TF-Si) solar cells light harvesting schemes must guarantee an efficient light trapping in the thin absorber layers without decreasing the silicon layers quality and consecutively the p-i-n diodes electrical performance. TF-Si solar cells resilience to the substrate roughness is reported to be possibly improved through optimizations of the cell design and of the silicon deposition processes. By further tailoring the superstrate texture, amorphous silicon / microcrystalline silicon (a-Si:H/mu c-Si:H) tandem solar cells with an initial efficiency up to 13.7 % and a stabilized efficiency up to 11.8 % are demonstrated on single-scale textured superstrates. An alternative approach combining large and smooth features nanoimprinted onto a transparent lacquer with small and sharp textures from as-grown LPCVD ZnO is then shown to have a high potential for further increasing TF-Si devices efficiency. First results demonstrate up to 14.1 % initial efficiency for a TF-Si tandem solar cell.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318218
Web of Science ID

WOS:000309917803067

Author(s)
Despeisse, Matthieu  
Boccard, Mathieu  
Battaglia, Corsin  
Bugnon, Gregory
Charriere, Mathieu
Garcia, Loic
Bonnet-Eymard, Maximilien
Escarre, Jordi
Cuony, Peter  
Stuckelberger, Michael
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Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Ieee

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2012 38Th Ieee Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (Pvsc)
ISBN of the book

978-1-4673-0066-7

Total of pages

5

Start page

3015

End page

3019

Subjects

thin film

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amorphous silicon

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light trapping

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photovoltaic cells

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silicon

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tandem cells

Note

IMT-NE Number : 697

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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PV-LAB  
Event name
38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Available on Infoscience
February 27, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/89859
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