Abstract

We present the effect of geometrical parameters, particularly shape, on optical absorption enhancement for thin film solar cells based on crystalline silicon (c-Si) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) using a rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) method. It is discovered that the “sweet spot” that maximizes efficiency of solar cells exists for the design of nanophotonic surfaces. For the case of ultrathin, rod array is practical due to the effective optical resonances resulted from the optimum geometry whereas parabola array is viable for relatively thicker cells owing to the effective graded index profile. A specific value of thickness, which is the median value of other two devices tailored by rod and paraboloid, is optimized by truncated shape structure. It is therefore worth scanning the optimum shape of nanostructures in a given thickness in order to achieve high performance.

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[Crossref]

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S. Collin, “Nanostructure arrays in free-space: optical properties and applications,” Rep. Prog. Phys. 77(12), 126402 (2014).
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2013 (4)

B. Hua, B. Wang, M. Yu, P. W. Leu, and Z. Fan, “Rational geometrical design of multi-diameter nanopillars for efficient light harvesting,” Nano Energy 2(5), 951–957 (2013).
[Crossref]

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I. Suemune, H. Nakajima, X. Liu, S. Odashima, T. Asano, H. Iijima, J.-H. Huh, Y. Idutsu, H. Sasakura, and H. Kumano, “Metal-coated semiconductor nanostructures and simulation of photon extraction and coupling to optical fibers for a solid-state single-photon source,” Nanotechnology 24(45), 455205 (2013).
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J.-W. Ho, Q. Wee, J. Dumond, A. Tay, and S.-J. Chua, “Versatile pattern generation of periodic, high aspect ratio Si nanostructure arrays with sub-50-nm resolution on a wafer scale,” Nanoscale Res. Lett. 8(1), 506 (2013).
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R. Sanatinia, K. M. Awan, S. Naureen, N. Anttu, E. Ebraert, and S. Anand, “GaAs nanopillar arrays with suppressed broadband reflectance and high optical quality for photovoltaic applications,” Opt. Mater. Express 2(11), 1990–1995 (2012).
[Crossref]

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B. Wang and P. W. Leu, “Tunable and selective resonant absorption in vertical nanowires,” Opt. Lett. 37(18), 3756–3758 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

X. Sheng, S. G. Johnson, L. Z. Broderick, J. Michel, and L. C. Kimerling, “Integrated photonic structures for light trapping in thin-film Si solar cells,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 100(11), 111110 (2012).
[Crossref]

G. Mariani, Y. Wang, P.-S. Wong, A. Lech, C.-H. Hung, J. Shapiro, S. Prikhodko, M. El-Kady, R. B. Kaner, and D. L. Huffaker, “Three-dimensional core-shell hybrid solar cells via controlled in situ materials engineering,” Nano Lett. 12(7), 3581–3586 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

J. Buencuerpo, L. E. Munioz-Camuniez, M. L. Dotor, and P. A. Postigo, “Optical absorption enhancement in a hybrid system photonic crystal - thin substrate for photovoltaic applications,” Opt. Express 20, A452–A464 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

A. Polman and H. A. Atwater, “Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics,” Nat. Mater. 11(3), 174–177 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

G. Gomard, X. Meng, E. Drouard, K. El Hajjam, E. Gerelli, R. Peretti, A. Fave, R. Orobtchouk, M. Lemiti, and C. Seassal, “Light harvesting by planar photonic crystals in solar cells: the case of amorphous silicon,” J. Opt. 14(2), 024011 (2012).
[Crossref]

2011 (12)

H. Park, D. Shin, G. Kang, S. Baek, K. Kim, and W. J. Padilla, “Broadband optical antireflection enhancement by integrating antireflective nanoislands with silicon nanoconical-frustum arrays,” Adv. Mater. 23(48), 5796–5800 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

J. W. Leem, Y. M. Song, and J. S. Yu, “Broadband antireflective germanium surfaces based on subwavelength structures for photovoltaic cell applications,” Opt. Express 19(27), 26308–26317 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

S. B. Mallick, N. P. Sergeant, M. Agrawal, J.-Y. Lee, and P. Peumans, “Coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaics,” MRS Bull. 36(6), 453–460 (2011).
[Crossref]

J. W. Leem, Y. M. Song, and J. S. Yu, “Broadband wide-angle antireflection enhancement in AZO/Si shell/core subwavelength grating structures with hydrophobic surface for Si-based solar cells,” Opt. Express 19(S5), A1155–A1164 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

E. Moulin, U. W. Paetzold, H. Siekmann, J. Worbs, A. Bauer, and R. Carius, “Study of thin-film silicon solar cell back reflectors and potential of detached reflectors,” Energy Procedia 10, 106–110 (2011).
[Crossref]

M.-A. Tsai, P.-C. Tseng, H.-C. Chen, H.-C. Kuo, and P. Yu, “Enhanced conversion efficiency of a crystalline silicon solar cell with frustum nanorod arrays,” Opt. Express 19(S1Suppl 1), A28–A34 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

X. Meng, G. Gomard, O. El Daif, E. Drouard, R. Orobtchouk, A. Kaminski, A. Fave, M. Lemiti, A. Abramov, P. Roca i Cabarrocas, and C. Seassal, “Absorbing photonic crystals for silicon thin-film solar cells: design, fabrication and experimental investigation,” Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 95, S32–S38 (2011).
[Crossref]

S. Naureen, R. Sanatinia, N. Shahid, and S. Anand, “High optical quality InP-based nanopillars fabricated by a top-down approach,” Nano Lett. 11(11), 4805–4811 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

X. Chen, Z. Fan, Y. Xu, G. Song, and L. Chen, “Microelectronic Engineering Fabrication of biomimic GaAs subwavelength grating structures for broadband and angular-independent antireflection,” Microelectron. Eng. 88(9), 2889–2893 (2011).
[Crossref]

K. Han, J. Shin, W. Yoon, and H. Lee, “Enhanced performance of solar cells with anti-reflection layer fabricated by nano-imprint lithography,” Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 95(1), 288–291 (2011).
[Crossref]

H. Park, D. Shin, G. Kang, S. Baek, K. Kim, and W. J. Padilla, “Broadband optical antireflection enhancement by integrating antireflective nanoislands with silicon nanoconical-frustum arrays,” Adv. Mater. 23(48), 5796–5800 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

J. W. Leem, Y. M. Song, and J. S. Yu, “Six-fold hexagonal symmetric nanostructures with various periodic shapes on GaAs substrates for efficient antireflection and hydrophobic properties,” Nanotechnology 22(48), 485304 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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Y. Li, J. Zhang, S. Zhu, H. Dong, F. Jia, Z. Wang, Y. Tang, L. Zhang, S. Zhang, and B. Yang, “Bioinspired silica surfaces with near-infrared improved transmittance and superhydrophobicity by colloidal lithography,” Langmuir 26(12), 9842–9847 (2010).
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F. Wang, H. Yu, J. Li, X. Sun, X. Wang, and H. Zheng, “Optical absorption enhancement in nanopore Textured-Silicon Thin Film for Photovoltaic Application,” Opt. Lett. 35(1), 40–42 (2010).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

Y. M. Song, J. S. Yu, and Y. T. Lee, “Antireflective submicrometer gratings on thin-film silicon solar cells for light-absorption enhancement,” Opt. Lett. 35(3), 276–278 (2010).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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J. Zhu, C. M. Hsu, Z. Yu, S. Fan, and Y. Cui, “Nanodome solar cells with efficient light management and self-cleaning,” Nano Lett. 10(6), 1979–1984 (2010).
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H. Park, D. Shin, G. Kang, S. Baek, K. Kim, and W. J. Padilla, “Broadband optical antireflection enhancement by integrating antireflective nanoislands with silicon nanoconical-frustum arrays,” Adv. Mater. 23(48), 5796–5800 (2011).
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1 Schematic view of thin-film c-Si solar cells (a) with rod array and characteristic parameters and (c) parabola array. (b) Contour maps of the integrated absorption as a function of the period of the rod arrays and their FF with various cell thicknesses. (d) Calculated effective refractive indice of the parabola arrays with three different FFs corresponding to the height. (e) Contour map of the variation of surface reflectance as a function of wavelength for the parabola structure and its height.

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Fig. 2 Simulated cell efficiencies versus height and period contour plots for cell thicknesses of (a) 200 nm, (b) 500 nm, (c) 800 nm and (d) 1.1 μm with rod and parabola array structures.

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Fig. 3 Simulated surface reflection spectra from structures with flat (black), Rod- (green) and Parabola-shaped (red), for cell thicknesses of (a) 200 nm, (b) 500 nm and (c) 800 nm with mentioned height and period. Electric field distributions of the structures (d), (e) at the wavelength of 600 nm and (f), (g) 710 nm shown in [Figs. 3(a) and 3(c)] as the circle symbols.

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Fig. 4 (a) Geometrical transformation process of nanostructure shape by varying parabolic ratio. (b) Contour map of the variation of absorption efficiency as a function of wavelength for the thin-film c-Si solar cell and its parabolic ratio (Only absorption efficiency above 40% are plotted). (c) Calculated cell efficiency of the c-Si solar cell (red) and averaged absorption efficiency (green) over the range of wavelength 800-900 nm depicted as a white rectangular in Fig. 4(c) as a function of the parabolic ratio. Inset: Schematic view of a PR50% patterned thin-film c-Si solar cell.

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Fig. 5 (a) Absorption efficiency in function of the wavelength and height of the c-Si thin films with three different light-trapping structures (Only absorption efficiency above 40% are plotted). (b) Calculated cell efficiency of the structures as a function the height. (c) Cell efficiencies versus height and period contour plots for cell thickness of 500 nm with varying the shape of nanostructures.

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Fig. 6 Simulated cell efficiencies for GaAs versus height and period contour plots for cell thicknesses of (a) 200 nm, (b) 350 nm and (c) 500 nm with three different light trapping structures.

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Table 1 Fabrication methods of rod, paraboloid, and truncated structure

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η=JscVocΓf/Pin
Tapered order (TO) = (Parabolic ratio) 1.5
f(z)=1− ( 1−z ) 1 2 ×TO

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