Numerical Simulation of High-Efficiency, Scalable, All-Back-Contact Cd(Se,Te) Solar Cells: Article No. 223104

Marco Nardone; M. Spehar; Darius Kuciauskas; David Albin

doi:10.1063/5.0009924

Numerical Simulation of High-Efficiency, Scalable, All-Back-Contact Cd(Se,Te) Solar Cells: Article No. 223104

Marco Nardone, M. Spehar, Darius Kuciauskas, David Albin

Bowling Green State University

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All-back-contact thin film photovoltaic devices in lattice back contact (LBC) configuration are studied by device simulation to set the requirements for achieving efficiency > 20% with lateral contact spacing > 50 µm. The numerical device model is first validated against published data for an LBC perovskite device and extended to predict the performance of Cd(Se,Te)-based polycrystalline devices. Recent advances in the electronic properties of Cd(Se,Te) films have made high efficiency LBC devices feasible with industrially-scalable contact dimensions. Constraints on bulk, interface, and contact properties are quantified and discussed

Original language	American English
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	127
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0009924
State	Published - 2020

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Keywords

CdTe
crystallographic defects
interface defects
passivation
perovskites
photovoltaics
polycrystalline material
semiconductor device modeling
semiconductors
solar cells
thin films

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