Low aspect-ratio hemispherical nanopit surface texturing for enhancing light absorption in crystalline Si thin film-based solar cells
- 10 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 98 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3537810
Abstract
In this letter, we report light absorption enhancement in crystalline Si thin film-based solar cells through introducing low aspect-ratio hemispherical nanopit surface textures. Optical characteristics of the system are systematically investigated in terms of the structural parameters including nanopit diameter (D) and array periodicity (P) via simulation. An ultimate efficiency of ∼35.7% is predicted when both D and P are ∼700 nm, which is more than double of that (∼15.9%) of the flat Si film with the same thickness of 2 μm. An understanding on the light absorption enhancement is provided based on the optical processes in the subwavelength structures.Keywords
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