Interface Engineering of High Efficiency Organic-Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
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Developing High Performance GaP/Si Heterojunction Solar Cells
Published on: November 16, 2018
Lixia Yang1, Yaoping Liu1, Wei Chen1
1Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
Insufficient interface conformity is a challenge faced in hybrid organic-silicon heterojunction solar cells because of using conventional pyramid antireflection texturing provoking the porosity of interface. In this study, we tested alternative textures, in particular rounded pyramids and inverted pyramids to compare the performance. It was remarkably improved delivering 7.61%, 8.91% and 10.04% efficiency employing conventional, rounded, and inverted pyramids, respectively. The result was interpreted in terms of gradually improving conformity of the Ag/organic/silicon interface, together with the gradually decreasing serial resistance. Altogether, the present data may guide further efforts arising the interface engineering for mastering high efficient heterojunction solar cells.
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