• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The impact of intermediate reflectors on light absorption in tandem solar cells with randomly textured surfaces
  • Contributor: Rockstuhl, C. [Author]; Lederer, F. [Author]; Bittkau, K. [Author]; Beckers, T. [Author]; Carius, R. [Author]
  • Published: American Institute of Physics, 2009
  • Published in: Applied physics letters 94, 211101 (2009). doi:10.1063/1.3142421
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3142421
  • ISSN: 0003-6951
  • Keywords: light absorption ; silicon ; solar cells ; refractive index ; elemental semiconductors
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  • Description: The impact of dielectric intermediate reflectors on the light absorption in the top cell of an a-Si:H/mu c-Si:H tandem solar cell comprising randomly textured surfaces was investigated by rigorous diffraction theory. Despite the strong light scattering, we found Fabry-Perot oscillations for the absorption with a decreasing modulation for an increasing thickness of the intermediate layer, a larger oscillation period when compared to thin films and a homogenization of the absorption profile. Optimized intermediate reflectors generate an absorption enhancement in the a-Si:H film, which varies between a factor of 2 and more than 3 for wavelengths of strong and weak absorption, respectively.
  • Access State: Open Access