Luminescent Solar Concentrator Tandem-on-Silicon with above 700mV Passivated Contact Silicon Bottom Cell

San Theingi; William Nemeth; Dawn Findley; John Geisz; Pauls Stradins; David Needell; Haley Bauser; Megan Phelan; Hanxiao Su; Brent Koscher; Zach Nett; Ognjen Ilic; Colton Bukowsky; Ralph Nuzzo; A. Alivisatos; Harry Atwater

doi:10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980809

Luminescent Solar Concentrator Tandem-on-Silicon with above 700mV Passivated Contact Silicon Bottom Cell

San Theingi, William Nemeth, Dawn Findley, John Geisz, Pauls Stradins, David Needell, Haley Bauser, Megan Phelan, Hanxiao Su, Brent Koscher, Zach Nett, Ognjen Ilic, Colton Bukowsky, Ralph Nuzzo, A. Alivisatos, Harry Atwater

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Abstract

Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) tandem-on-silicon (Si) provides a route towards achieving higher than 30% overall efficiency which can overcome the theoretical efficiency limit of a single junction Si cell. Here, we present optical coupling and performance of high V_oc passivated contact Si bottom cell for LSC tandem-on-Si where the top module consists of highly efficient luminophores and an array of micro InGaP cells embedded in a poly (lauryl methacrylate) waveguide. In this device configuration, InGaP cell area coverage is only ∼0.5% of the total LSC area which significantly reduces the high cost III-V material usage. The performance of Si sub-cell is investigated under LSC spectrum and is compared against the measurement done under 1 μm thick InGaP filter which mimics the spectrum seen by Si bottom cell in a conventional III-V/Si tandem. V_oc of greater than 700 mV has been observed for the passivated contact Si bottom cell in these tandem applications.

Original language	American English
Pages	747-749
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980809 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980809
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-5900-74095

Keywords

luminescent solar concentrator
passivated contact cells
silicon

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Theingi, S., Nemeth, W., Findley, D., Geisz, J., Stradins, P., Needell, D., Bauser, H., Phelan, M., Su, H., Koscher, B., Nett, Z., Ilic, O., Bukowsky, C., Nuzzo, R., Alivisatos, A., & Atwater, H. (2019). Luminescent Solar Concentrator Tandem-on-Silicon with above 700mV Passivated Contact Silicon Bottom Cell. 747-749. Paper presented at 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2019, Chicago, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980809, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980809

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