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http://dx.doi.org/10.21218/CPR.2018.6.4.109

A Brief Study on the Fabrication of III-V/Si Based Tandem Solar Cells  

Panchanan, Swagata (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Dutta, Subhajit (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Mallem, Kumar (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Sanyal, Simpy (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Park, Jinjoo (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Ju, Minkyu (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Cho, Young Hyun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Cho, Eun-Chel (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Yi, Junsin (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Current Photovoltaic Research / v.6, no.4, 2018 , pp. 109-118 More about this Journal
Abstract
Silicon (Si) solar cells are the most successful technology which are ruling the present photovoltaic (PV) market. In that essence, multijunction (MJ) solar cells provided a new path to improve the state-of-art efficiencies. There are so many hurdles to grow the MJ III-V materials on Si substrate as Si with other materials often demands similar qualities, so it is needed to realize the prospective of Si tandem solar cells. However, Si tandem solar cells with MJ III-V materials have shown the maximum efficiency of 30 %. This work reviews the development of the III-V/Si solar cells with the synopsis of various growth mechanisms i.e hetero-epitaxy, wafer bonding and mechanical stacking of III-V materials on Si substrate. Theoretical approaches to design efficient tandem cell with an analysis of state-of-art silicon solar cells, sensitivity, difficulties and their probable solutions are discussed in this work. An analytical model which yields the practical efficiency values to design the high efficiency III-V/Si solar cells is described briefly.
Keywords
III-V solar cell; Si substrate; Tandem solar cell; Multijunction;
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