Comparison of Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire and Surface Textured Thin-Film Solar Cells
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Abstract
The optics of axial silicon nanowire solar cells is investigated and compared to silicon thin-film solar cells with textured contact layers. The quantum efficiency and short circuit current density are calculated taking a device geometry into account, which can be fabricated by using standard semiconductor processing. The solar cells with textured absorber and textured contact layers provide a gain of short circuit current density of 4.4 mA/cm2 and 6.1 mA/cm2 compared to a solar cell on a flat substrate, respectively. The influence of the device dimensions on the quantum efficiency and short circuit current density will be discussed.
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OpenAlex topics: Nanowire Synthesis and Applications · Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
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Jacobs University Bremen, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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