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The rear contact is much less important than the front contact since it is much further away from the junction and does not need to be transparent. The metal grid shades the cell from the incoming light so there is a compromise between light collection and resistance of the metal grid. The resistivity of silicon is too high to conduct away all the current generated, so a lower resistivity metal grid is placed on the surface to conduct away the current. (fingers 20 to 200 Вµm width, placed 1 - 5 mm apart)

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However, excessive levels of doping reduces the material's quality to the extent that carriers recombine before reaching the junction. Download this stock image: Solar cell texture background - D8DC27 from Alamys library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. The front junction is doped to a level sufficient to conduct away the generated electricity without resistive loses. By making the front layer very thin, a large fraction of the carriers generated by the incoming light are created within a diffusion length of the p-n junction. Emitter ThicknessДЄ large fraction of light is absorbed close to the front surface. Thus the top of the cell is the negative terminal and the rear of the cell is the positive terminal. N-type silicon has a higher surface quality than p-type silicon so it is placed at the front of the cell where most of the light is absorbed.

The front surface is textured to increase the amount of light coupled into the cell. Doping of BaseДЄ higher base doping leads to a higher V oc and lower resistance, but higher levels of doping result in damage to the crystal. Solar Panel 3D PBR Texture A23D - The largest 3D asset library. However, thickness between 200 and 500Вµm are typically used, partly for practical issues such as making and handling thin wafers, and partly for surface passivation reasons. Sort by price: high to low, Random Sorting. Cell ThicknessДЄn optimum silicon solar cell with light trapping and very good surface passivation is about 100 Вµm thick. However, silicon's abundance, and its domination of the semiconductor manufacturing industry has made it difficult for other materials to compete. While the low absorption co-efficient can be overcome by light trapping, silicon is also difficult to grow into thin sheets. In particular, silicon's band gap is slightly too low for an optimum solar cell and since silicon is an indirect material, it has a low absorption co-efficient. As is also the case for transistors, silicon does not have optimum material parameters. Basic Cell Design Compromises Substrate MaterialД«ulk crystalline silicon dominates the current photovoltaic market, in part due to the prominence of silicon in the integrated circuit market. The top layer is referred to as the emitter and the bulk material is referred to as the base. Note that innovations in recent years have identified other designs that can surpass this one in efficiency.Д«asic schematic of a silicon solar cell. A schematic of such an optimum device using a traditional geometry is shown below. By combining the advantages of these two designs, the short circuit of the proposed structure showed more than 65% enhancement compared to the conventional structure.For silicon solar cells, the basic design constraints on surface reflection, carrier collection, recombination and parasitic resistances result in an optimum device of about 25% theoretical efficiency. The hemisphere texturing acts as a light concentrator and results in local electric field enhancement inside the silicon layer, and metallic nanostructure excites the plasmons. The simulation results demonstrated that the designed structure gives rise to 40% light absorption enhancement and 27% solar cell efficiency enhancement compared to a simple cell structure.

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method has been used to investigate the interaction of light with the proposed structure. In this work, we have proposed a new design including hemisphere texturing on top and metallic plasmonic nanostructure under the silicon layer to enhance the optical absorption inside the photosensitive layer.

One major problem of the conventional solar cells is low conversion efficiency.

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