Yalamanchili, Sisir and Lewis, Nathan S. and Atwater, Harry A. (2018) Role of Doping Dependent Radiative and Non-radiative Recombination in Determining the Limiting Efficiencies of Silicon Solar Cells. In: 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC). IEEE , Piscataway, NJ, pp. 3223-3226. ISBN 9781538685297. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181210-140401859
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Abstract
We show that increasing the bulk doping in a silicon based solar cell can increase the fraction of photo generated carriers that recombine radiatively at open circuit condition. This increases the maximum achievable open circuit voltage (Voc) in a solar cell At higher doping levels auger recombination and band gap narrowing effects dominate leading to a reduction in Voc. Therefore radiative and non-radiative recombinations at Voc determines the optimum doping of the bulk to maximize the performance especially in thin solar cells with increased surface area due to surface texturing.
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| Additional Information: | © 2018 IEEE. This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) under NSF CA No. EEC-1041895. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of NSF or DOE. The authors would like to thank Phil Jahelka and Colton Bukowsky for productive discussions. | ||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | silicon, photovoltaic cells, limiting efficiency | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1109/pvsc.2018.8547758 | ||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20181210-140401859 | ||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181210-140401859 | ||||||
| Official Citation: | S. Yalamanchili, N. S. Lewis and H. A. Atwater, "Role of Doping Dependent Radiative and Non-radiative Recombination in Determining the Limiting Efficiencies of Silicon Solar Cells," 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), Waikoloa Village, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 3223-3226. doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547758 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 91655 | ||||||
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| Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 10 Dec 2018 23:14 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 03:43 |
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