Simulation App for Time-Resolved Photoluminescence in Thin-Film Solar Cells

John Moseley; Dmitry Krasikov; Darius Kuciauskas

doi:10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518681

Simulation App for Time-Resolved Photoluminescence in Thin-Film Solar Cells

John Moseley, Dmitry Krasikov, Darius Kuciauskas

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We develop a COMSOL Multiphysics-based model and application, or "app", for time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements in thin-film solar cells. TRPL is commonly used to measure recombination in thin-film solar cells. However, simulations show that decay times extracted from TRPL data are not, in general, equal to the Shockley-Read-Hall lifetime parameter set in the model. Here, we present a model and app, using graded CdSeyTe1-y solar cells as an example, that can be used to study impacts of a range of potentially important material and measurement parameters on TRPL results.

Original language	American English
Pages	1687-1690
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518681 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518681
State	Published - 20 Jun 2021
Event	48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2021 - Fort Lauderdale, United States Duration: 20 Jun 2021 → 25 Jun 2021

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Conference	48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Fort Lauderdale
Period	20/06/21 → 25/06/21

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minority-carrier lifetime
recombination
simulation
thin-film solar cells
time-resolved photoluminescence

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