Impact of Different Antireflection Layers on Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Solar Cells: a PC1D Simulation Study

Devendra Kc; Deb Kumar Shah; Amer M. Alanazi; M. Shaheer Akhtar

doi:10.1007/s11664-020-08696-5

Impact of Different Antireflection Layers on Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Solar Cells: a PC1D Simulation Study

Devendra Kc
, Deb Kumar Shah^*
, Amer M. Alanazi
, M. Shaheer Akhtar^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Graduate School of Intergrated Physical-AI

Gabriel Elektro AS
Jeonbuk National University
King Saud University

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Abstract

Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is currently known to be one of the reliable cost-effective materials for manufacturing solar cells. In this work, different materials such as magnesium fluoride (MgF₂), aluminum trioxide (Al₂O₃), tin oxide (SnO₂), and magnesium oxide (MgO) were applied as a single antireflection coating (ARC) layer and characterized their optoelectrical properties of the resulting CdTe solar cells. A personal computer one-dimensional (PC1D) simulation study was carried out to instigate the overall performance when varying the thickness of the absorber and window layers. Simulation results confirmed that Al₂O₃ single ARC layer with thickness of 83 nm achieved the best efficiency of 17.81% as compared with the other ARC materials. The Al₂O₃ single ARC layer resulted in a short-circuit current of 2.89 A and open-circuit voltage of 0.740 V.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2199-2205
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Electronic Materials
Volume	50
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08696-5
State	Published - 2021.04

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Antireflection materials
CdTe solar cells
conversion efficiency
optoelectrical properties
PC1D simulation

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Materials Science
Engineering - Electrical & Electronic
Engineering - Petroleum
Physics & Astronomy

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