Silicon solar cells with antireflection diamond-like carbon and silicon carbide films
| Autor: | Martin Kittler, Winfried Seifert, V. N. Dikusha, V.G. Litovchenko, Aleksey Rozhin, Nickolai I. Klyui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Materials science
Silicon Diamond-like carbon Passivation Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry chemistry.chemical_element Diamond engineering.material Surfaces Coatings and Films Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound Optics Solar cell efficiency Carbon film chemistry law Solar cell Silicon carbide engineering Optoelectronics business |
| Zdroj: | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 72:597-603 |
| ISSN: | 0927-0248 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0927-0248(01)00209-4 |
| Popis: | Optical properties of diamond-like carbon and silicon carbide (SiC) films in dependence on deposition conditions were investigated. It was established that the films having refractive index from 1.6 to 2.3 may be obtained. The film optical bandgap and hardness may be changed from 1.5 to 4 eV and from ∼1 to ∼20 GPa, correspondingly. The films were deposited onto the front side of silicon solar cells (SCs). It has been shown that deposition of single- or two-layer diamond-like carbon antireflection (AR) coatings enables the SCs efficiency to be improved 1.35–1.5 times. The improvement is connected with decreasing of reflection losses and passivation of recombination active centers. SiC AR coatings improve the solar cell efficiency up to 1.3 times. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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