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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/TEEM.2016.17.5.275

Present Status of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Surfaces: A Brief Review  

Park, Hyeongsik (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Iftiquar, S.M. (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Le, Anh Huy Tuan (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Ahn, Shihyun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kang, Junyoung (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Yongjun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Yi, Junsin (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Sunbo (Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University)
Shin, Myunghun (School of Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
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Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials / v.17, no.5, 2016 , pp. 275-279 More about this Journal
Abstract
This is a brief review on light trapping in Si based thin film solar cells with textured surfaces and transparent conducting oxide front electrodes. The light trapping scheme appears to be essential in improving device efficiency over 10%. As light absorption in a thin film solar cells is not sufficient, light trapping becomes necessary to be effectively implemented with a textured surface. Surface texturing helps in the light trapping, and thereby raises short circuit current density and its efficiency. Such a scheme can be adapted to single junction as well as tandem solar cell, amorphous or micro-crystalline devices. A tandem cell is expected to have superior performance in comparison to a single junction cell and random surface textures appears to be preferable to a periodic structures.
Keywords
Si thin film solar cell; Light trapping; Surface texturing;
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