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PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells

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Main Authors: Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali, Ayu Wazira, Azhari, Samir, Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman, Sopian, Saleem Hussain, Zaidi
Other Authors: ayuwazira@unimap.edu.my
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016
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Silicon
Germanium
PC1D
SixGe1-x solar cells
IQE
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/42214
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spelling my.unimap-422142016-06-28T05:21:05Z PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali Ayu Wazira, Azhari Samir, Ahmad Kamaruzzaman, Sopian Saleem Hussain, Zaidi ayuwazira@unimap.edu.my Silicon Germanium PC1D SixGe1-x solar cells IQE Link to publisher's homepage at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org Inability to achieve complete optical absorption in thin-film crystalline Si (TF c-Si) solar cells fundamentally limits efficiency. Therefore, materials with high absorption across the entire solar spectrum are highly desirable. In this study, several TF solar cell configurations based on Silicon Germanium (Si1-xGex) alloys have been investigated. With the help of PC1D software, TF c-Si solar cells with varying composition of Si1-xGex layers with x in the range of 4 % to 50 % have been modeled. In all cases, Si1-xGex solar cells performed better than c-Si TF solar cells; the optimized Ge concentration was determined to be 20%. For example, in case of 10-μm thick TF solar cell, crystalline Si/Si1-xGex exhibits simulated efficiency of ∼ 22 % in contrast with ∼ 17 % for same thickness c-Si solar cell. Optimization of the alloy composition, doping concentration of the Si1-xGex, thickness of the alloy layer and placement of the layer in the cell structure will be reported at the conference. 2016-06-28T05:18:38Z 2016-06-28T05:18:38Z 2014-10-15 Article 2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014, pages 1317-1320 978-147994398-2 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/42214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925160 en Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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topic Silicon
Germanium
PC1D
SixGe1-x solar cells
IQE
spellingShingle Silicon
Germanium
PC1D
SixGe1-x solar cells
IQE
Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali
Ayu Wazira, Azhari
Samir, Ahmad
Kamaruzzaman, Sopian
Saleem Hussain, Zaidi
PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
description Link to publisher's homepage at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
author2 ayuwazira@unimap.edu.my
author_facet ayuwazira@unimap.edu.my
Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali
Ayu Wazira, Azhari
Samir, Ahmad
Kamaruzzaman, Sopian
Saleem Hussain, Zaidi
format Article
author Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali
Ayu Wazira, Azhari
Samir, Ahmad
Kamaruzzaman, Sopian
Saleem Hussain, Zaidi
author_sort Adnan K Shafeeque, Ali
title PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
title_short PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
title_full PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
title_fullStr PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
title_full_unstemmed PC1D analysis of thin-film crystalline SixGe1-x/Si solar cells
title_sort pc1d analysis of thin-film crystalline sixge1-x/si solar cells
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
publishDate 2016
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/42214
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