Calculation of the Thermodynamic Voltage Limit of CdSeTe Solar Cells

Darius Kuciauskas, Arthur Onno, Adam Danielson, Carey Reich, Anna Kindvall, William Weigand, Amit Munshi, Siming Li, Walajabad Sampath, Zachary Holman

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Abstract

The first step to understand the origin of losses in any photovoltaic solar cell is to determine the fundamental thermodynamic efficiency and voltage limits of such a device. In this contribution, we detail techniques to calculate the voltage limit in the case of cadmium selenium telluride (CdSeTe) solar cells, and how approaches based on bandgap alone - i.e., the Shockley-Queisser approach with step-function absorptance - can overestimate the thermodynamic open-circuit voltage limit V_{oc,ideal}. This is particularly true for arsenic-doped samples, which tend to exhibit below-bandgap absorptance.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages535-537
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jun 2020
Event47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020 - Calgary, Canada
Duration: 15 Jun 202021 Aug 2020

Conference

Conference47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityCalgary
Period15/06/2021/08/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5900-79476

Keywords

  • absorptance
  • cadmium selenium telluride
  • photoluminescence
  • thermodynamic voltage limit

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