Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells

Shahzada Qamar Hussain; Anh Huy Tuan Le; Kumar Mallem; Hyeongsik Park; Minkyu Ju; Jaehyun Cho; Jinjoo Park; Eun Chel Cho; Young Hyun Cho; Youngkuk Kim; Junsin Yi

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547992

Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells

Shahzada Qamar Hussain
, Anh Huy Tuan Le
, Kumar Mallem
, Hyeongsik Park
, Minkyu Ju
, Jaehyun Cho
, Jinjoo Park
, Eun Chel Cho
, Young Hyun Cho
, Youngkuk Kim
, Junsin Yi

Sungkyunkwan University

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Abstract

It has been a hot debate in recent time whether periodic or random TCO surface morphology showed better light scattering in silicon thin film solar cells (TFSCs). We report an advanced light scattering scheme by various textured glass surface morphologies with high transmittance, haze ratio in visible as well as in near infra-red (NIR) wavelength region for the applications of silicon TFSCs. Three different textured (trapezoid, pyramid and random) glass surface morphologies with high transmittance, rms roughness and haze ratios were selected. The textured glass surface morphologies showed higher optical transmittance (91.77 to 93.04%) as compared to bare glass transmittance (90.94%) in the visible wavelength region. It was observed that the haze ratio was reliant on the surface feature size, etching depth, spacing and rms roughness of glass surfaces. Multi-textured AZO films deposited on micro textured glass surfaces showed higher transmittance 83.78% and haze ratio of 65.06% in the visible wavelength region. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis was performed in order to investigate changes in the composition of textured glass surfaces. Amorphous silicon (a-Si) TFSCs were fabricated on periodic and random textured glass surface morphologies showed higher current density (16.55 and 16.68 mA/cm2) and efficiency (9.61 and 9.79%), respectively. Due to higher transmittance, haze ratio, high rms roughness and better step coverage, we propose these textured glass surface morphologies for high efficiency amorphous and microcrystalline based silicon thin film solar cells.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3090-3096
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538685297
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547992
State	Published - 26 Nov 2018
Event	7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

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Name	2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC

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Conference	7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa Village
Period	10/06/18 → 15/06/18

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Keywords

a-Si thin film solar cell
Absorber layer
Light scattering
Multitextured AZO
rms roughness
μc -Si thin film solar cell

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Hussain, S. Q., Tuan Le, A. H., Mallem, K., Park, H., Ju, M., Cho, J., Park, J., Cho, E. C., Cho, Y. H., Kim, Y., & Yi, J. (2018). Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells. In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC (pp. 3090-3096). Article 8547992 (2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547992

Hussain, Shahzada Qamar ; Tuan Le, Anh Huy ; Mallem, Kumar et al. / Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells. 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 3090-3096 (2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC).

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Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells. / Hussain, Shahzada Qamar; Tuan Le, Anh Huy; Mallem, Kumar et al.
2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 3090-3096 8547992 (2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC).

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Hussain SQ, Tuan Le AH, Mallem K, Park H, Ju M, Cho J et al. Advanced Light scattering through various textured glass surface morphologies in thin film silicon solar cells. In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. p. 3090-3096. 8547992. (2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC). doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547992

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