III-V/Si Tandem Cells Utilizing Interdigitated Back Contact Si Cells and Varying Terminal Configurations

Manuel Schnabel; Michael Rienacker; Agnes Merkle; Talysa Klein; Nikhil Jain; Stephanie Essig; Henning Schulte-Huxel; Emily Warren; Maikel van Hest; John Geisz; Jan Schmidt; Rolf Brendel; Robby Peibst; Paul Stradins; Adele Tamboli

doi:10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.9198960

III-V/Si Tandem Cells Utilizing Interdigitated Back Contact Si Cells and Varying Terminal Configurations

Manuel Schnabel, Michael Rienacker, Agnes Merkle, Talysa Klein, Nikhil Jain, Stephanie Essig, Henning Schulte-Huxel, Emily Warren, Maikel van Hest, John Geisz, Jan Schmidt, Rolf Brendel, Robby Peibst, Paul Stradins, Adele Tamboli

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Integrating wide-bandgap III-V with Si solar cells has been shown to yield higher efficienciesthan Si alone: As also presented at this conference, four-terminal efficiencies exceeding 32 havebeen attained. In this contribution, independent and electrically connected operation of the subcellsin such tandem cells is examined. The optics of the tandem cell change significantly if a conducting interconnect, rather than an insulating glass slide, is required between the subcells. These effects are studied, and optically optimized structures for different types of tandem cell operation are presented. It is found that minimizing reflection at the conductive interface between the two cells while maintaining conductivity is the key challenge faced in such devices.

Original language	American English
Pages	3446-3450
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.9198960 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.9198960
State	Published - Jun 2019
Event	46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019 - Chicago, United States Duration: 16 Jun 2019 → 21 Jun 2019

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Conference	46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	16/06/19 → 21/06/19

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NREL/CP-5K00-78469

Keywords

glass
II-VI semiconductor materials
indium tin oxide
optical reflection
silicon
zinc compounds

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Schnabel, M., Rienacker, M., Merkle, A., Klein, T., Jain, N., Essig, S., Schulte-Huxel, H., Warren, E., van Hest, M., Geisz, J., Schmidt, J., Brendel, R., Peibst, R., Stradins, P., & Tamboli, A. (2019). III-V/Si Tandem Cells Utilizing Interdigitated Back Contact Si Cells and Varying Terminal Configurations. 3446-3450. Paper presented at 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019, Chicago, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.9198960, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.9198960

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