Fabrication of screen printed optoelectronic CdS/CdTe device

Alam, Imran; Jiang, Jianliang; Naseem, Shahzad; Sadaqat, Afifa; Khan, Mughees

doi:10.1117/12.2193560

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“…Conversion of solar energy into electric energy is a remarkable renewable alternative for the electricity generation. Various other technologies have also been used to harvest energy from natural resources such as wind, water and biofuels [1][2][3][4][5]. Among these all, solar energy is the most promising alternative.…”

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Modeling and simulation of high-efficiency GaAs PIN solar cells

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Solar energy is the most convenient and reliable energy source among all renewable energy resources and an efficient photovoltaic device is required to convert this energy into utilizable energy. Different types of solar cells (SC) are commercially available. However, various parameters need to be optimized to get maximum efficiency from a SC. In this study we have presented a SC model in which dependence of quantum efficiency (QE) on various parameters has been investigated. The mobility of the carriers has been varied with wide range along with the carrier life time (LT). Results show that maximum efficiencies can be achieved up to 11.10% and 10.81% keeping the electron and hole mobility to be 1500 cm 2 V -1 s -1 and 300 cm 2 V -1 s -1 respectively with electron and hole carrier LT to be 3ns and 7ns respectively. The effect of surface recombination velocity (SRV) has also been brought under observation and the maximum efficiency is found to be 13.75% at electron and hole SRV equal to be 10 3 ms -1 . Results shows that the higher photovoltaic efficiencies can be achieved by increasing the mobility and carrier LT while decreasing the surface recombination velocities.

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