Abstract
An equivalent-circuit electrical model is used to simulate the photovoltaic properties of mixed-phase thin-film silicon solar cells. Microcrystalline and amorphous phases are represented as separate parallel-connected photodiode equivalent circuits, scaled by assuming that the photodiode area is directly proportional to the volume fraction of each phase. A reasonable correspondence between experiment and simulation is obtained for short-circuit current and open-circuit voltage vs. volume fraction. However the large dip in fill-factor and reduced PV efficiency measured for cells prepared in the low-crystalline region is inadequately reproduced. It is concluded that poor PV performance in this region is not due solely to shunting by more highly-crystalline filaments, which supports the view that the low-crystalline material has transport properties inferior to either microcrystalline or amorphous silicon.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | A07-A17 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | MRS Online Proceedings Library |
| Volume | 1245 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
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Keywords
- Amorphous thin films
- Thin film
- Si
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