... Thin film solar cells are a promising approach for terrestrial and space photovoltaics and offer a wide variety of choices in terms of the device design and fabrication, but it would surely be determined by the simplicity of manufacturability and the cost per reliable watt.
Thin film solar cells (TFSC) are a promising approach for terrestrial and space photovoltaics and offer a wide variety of choices in terms of the device design and fabrication.
The fabricated device has a Jsc of 27.06 mA/cm 2, a Voc of 0.98 V, and a FF of 83.35%. Table 1 summarizes the characteristics and structures of GaAs thin-film solar cells reported in published studies and this work. In general, a single-junction solar cell consists of a highly doped emitter layer and a lightly doped base layer.
The PCE of the fabricated single-junction GaAs thin-film solar cells reached 22.08% under air mass 1.5 global illumination. In the last few decades, much effort has gone into developing a thin-film solar cell to take advantage of its light weight and flexibility.
The structures of the thin-film solar cell are grown via MOCVD on a Zn-doped, p-type GaAs (100) substrate with a misorientation of 2° off toward direction. The heterostructure of the inverted single-junction GaAs solar cell is shown in Fig. 4.
The thin film solar cell fabricated in Alta devices has a high PCE 17 and a remarkable Voc of 1.12 V probably due to photon recycling as well as the optimized design 18, but its detailed structure has not been reported.
Research on thin film solar cell: Principal and parameters
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(PDF) Thin-Film Solar Cells: An Overview
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(PDF) Thin-Film Solar Cells: An Overview
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