Investigation of light trapping from porous silicon surface for the enhancement of silicon solar cell performance

In this work, an innovative porous silicon structure was utilized as an effective antireflective layer for silicon solar cell construction. Silvaco technology computer aided design tools were used to construct the three structures of the porous silicon layers which were no porous, single porous, and...

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發表在:Acta Physica Polonica A
主要作者: 2-s2.0-85071171420
格式: Article
語言:English
出版: Polish Academy of Sciences 2019
在線閱讀:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85071171420&doi=10.12693%2fAPhysPolA.135.637&partnerID=40&md5=557c533077eb16dbdb74324685f77b62
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總結:In this work, an innovative porous silicon structure was utilized as an effective antireflective layer for silicon solar cell construction. Silvaco technology computer aided design tools were used to construct the three structures of the porous silicon layers which were no porous, single porous, and double porous. Athena process simulator was used to create the non-porous silicon structure (as control device) and the single porous silicon structure, while the double porous structures were created at the n-type and p-type surfaces of the silicon solar cell by using the device editor (Devedit) tools. The three simulated structures were imported to the Atlas device simulator tools to simulate the current–voltage (I–V) characteristic and the spectral response of the solar cell. The simulation results of the three structures were compared with the fabrication results obtained by Ramizy et al. Finally, the efficiency extracted from the double porous solar cell is 9.55%, the single porous is 9.32%, and the no porous structure exhibited 4.83% efficiency. The double porous silicon solar cell showed an ability to effectively trapping the light collected in the solar cell and thereby improve the efficiency of the solar cell compared to the no porous and the single porous silicon structure. © 2019 Polish Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
ISSN:5874246
DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.135.637