Sunlight-thin nanophotonic monocrystalline silicon solar cells
Övrig text i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

Introducing nanophotonics into photovoltaics sets the path for scaling down the surface texture of crystalline-silicon solar cells from the micro-to the nanoscale, allowing to further boost the photon absorption while reducing silicon material loss. However, keeping excellent electrical performance has proven to be very challenging, as the absorber is damaged by the nanotexturing and the sensitivity to the surface recombination is dramatically increased. Here we realize a light-wavelength-scale nanotextured monocrystalline silicon cell with the confirmed efficiency of 8.6% and an effective thickness of only 830 nm. For this we adopt a self-assembled large-area and industry-compatible amorphous ordered nanopatterning, combined with an advanced surface passivation, earning strongly enhanced solar light absorption while retaining efficient electron collection. This prompts the development of highly efficient flexible and semitransparent photovoltaics, based on the industrially mature monocrystalline silicon technology.

Colloidal lithography

Nanophotonics

Crystalline-silicon film

Light trapping

Photovoltaics

Författare

V. Depauw

Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven

C. Trompoukis

KU Leuven

Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven

Universiteit Gent

Ines Massiot

Chalmers, Fysik, Bionanofotonik

W. H. Chen

Université Paris-Saclay

Alexander Dmitriev

Stanford University

Göteborgs universitet

P. R. I. Cabarrocas

Université Paris-Saclay

I. Gordon

Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven

J. Poortmans

Heart Center Hasselt

KU Leuven

Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven

Nano Futures

23991984 (eISSN)

Vol. 1 2 021001

Nanophotonics for ultra-thin crystalline silicon photovoltaics (PHOTONVOLTAICS)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/FP7/309127), 2012-11-01 -- 2015-10-31.

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

Bioteknisk apparatteknik

DOI

10.1088/2399-1984/aa7d7c

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