Light scattering effect of ITO:Zr/AZO films deposited on periodic textured glass surface morphologies for silicon thin film solar cells

Optical Simulation of Light Management in CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells Using Finite Element Method

“…The most prominent effect caused by the texturing of the cell layers is the decrease of the cell's total reflection, similarly to the texturing of TCO layer to minimize the reflection [28] or introduction of antireflection layer on top of the cell stack [29]. The significant decrease of reflection is observable over the entire simulated spectrum.…”

Plasma Textured Glass Surface Morphologies for Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells-A review

“…These metal elements produced the non-volatile etch products after reacting with halogen gases. The Ar gas can be used to remove the non-volatile etch products by physical etching [5,39,55,66,67]. The etching mechanism of SF 6 /Ar is readily available in following research reports related to textured glass [5,39,55,68].…”

“…Most of the researchers used randomly textured RIE glass surface morphologies for the TCO deposition. The hot debate between random or periodic textured surface morphologies being superior for light trapping and high value of current density is under investigation [ [5][6][7][8][9][10]39,55]. Few research reports of periodic textured ICP-RIE glass surface morphologies for solar cell applications are recently available [5,39,55].…”

“…Various etching chemistries are generally used for glass etching. Commonly used etching chemistries contain CF 4 [6,7,11,38] and SF 6 [5,39,55] gases with the addition of either O 2 or Ar for the glass etching. Few research groups also used CHF 3 etching gas to texture glass.…”