HAO Yu, SUN Xiao-hong, SUN Yi, ZHANG Xu, JIA Wei. Grating Based Absorption Layer for Enhanced Absorption in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(6): 769-775
HAO Yu, SUN Xiao-hong, SUN Yi, ZHANG Xu, JIA Wei. Grating Based Absorption Layer for Enhanced Absorption in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2013,34(6): 769-775 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20133406.0769.
Grating Based Absorption Layer for Enhanced Absorption in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells
A design is proposed to significantly increase the absorption of gallium arsenide thin-film layer. This is achieved by patterning a grating in the layer. By using rigorous coupled wave method
the absorption efficiency in the range of 300~900 nm has been analyzed for GaAs layer with rectangular and triangle gratings. The results show that the absorption efficiency of the two structures can be improved relative to the flat absorption layer and the peak absorption rate can be increased by 55.9%. And the structural parameters of the two structures have been also optimized. By analyzing the incident angular dependence of the two structures
it is concluded that solar cells with the triangular absorption layer have better characteristics in the same condition of thickness and filling factor. On the other hand
the finite element method is used to calculate the field distribution for different absorption layers. Good absorption enhancement can be observed directly from the absorption layer with gratings. The research provides a reference for the preparation of solar cell structures with high performance.
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