三节非晶硅薄膜太阳能电池 论文.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2011, Article ID 813093, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/813093 Research Article Three-Terminal Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells Cheng-Hung Tai,1 Chu-Hsuan Lin,1 Chih-Ming Wang,1 and Chun-Chieh Lin2 1 Institute of Opto-Electronic Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Chu-Hsuan Lin, chlin0109@mail.ndhu.edu.tw Received 15 June 2011; Accepted 5 September 2011 Academic Editor: Vincenzo Augugliaro Copyright © 2011 Cheng-Hung Tai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Many defects exist within amorphous silicon since it is not crystalline. This provides recombination centers, thus reducing the efficiency of a typical a-Si solar cell. A new structure is presented in this paper: a three-terminal a-Si solar cell. The new back- to-back p-i-n/n-i-p structure increased the average electric field in a solar cell. A typical a-Si p-i-n solar cell was also simulated for comparison using the same thickness and material parameters. The 0.28 µm-thick three-terminal a-Si solar cell achieved an efficiency of 11.4%, while the efficiency of a typical a-Si p-i-n solar cell was 9.0%. Furthermore, an efficiency of 11.7% was achieved by thickness optimization of the three-terminal solar cell. 1. Introduction the final efficiency is limited by the smallest photogenerated