Abstract
III-V/Si tandem solar cells have demonstrated efficiencies exceeding the theoretical efficiency limit of silicon solar cells. On the cell level, device modeling shows that three-terminal tandem (3T) devices with rear contacted bottom Si cells perform as well as operating the subcells independently (4T). However, integrating these 3T devices in a module requires voltage matching of the top and the bottom cell. Here, we investigate the robustness of parallel/series-interconnected 3T III-V/Si tandem devices in comparison with series-interconnected two terminal (2T) and independently operated (4T) devices with respect to spectral, thermal, and resistive effects. Under most conditions, interconnected 3T devices are able to perform as well as those with independent operation of the top and bottom cell, and 3T devices significantly outperform 2T devices.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 8421224 |
Pages (from-to) | 1370-1375 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2011-2012 IEEE.
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-5J00-70543
Keywords
- Module interconnection
- multijunction solar cells
- silicon solar cell
- tandem device