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 language | American English |
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Pages | 535-537 |
Number of pages | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 14 Jun 2020 |
Event | 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020 - Calgary, Canada Duration: 15 Jun 2020 → 21 Aug 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Calgary |
Period | 15/06/20 → 21/08/20 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 IEEE.
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5900-79476
Keywords
- absorptance
- cadmium selenium telluride
- photoluminescence
- thermodynamic voltage limit