Issue 61, 2018, Issue in Progress

Optimal design of an antireflection coating structure for enhancing the energy-conversion efficiency of a silicon nanostructure solar cell

Abstract

In this paper, we present our investigation of the optical and electrical characteristics of silicon solar cells using silicon nanowire, silicon nanocone, silicon nanopillar, and silicon nanopillar/silicon nitride structures, which were obtained by the Ag-assisted electroless etching method and ICP etching with extreme ultraviolet lithography. We introduced the formation mechanism for four kinds of solar cells. We simulated the absorption of four structures for different parameters. Furthermore, we also performed current density–voltage (JV) characterization of the samples with silicon nitride, which exhibited an improvement of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) in contrast to the samples without silicon nitride. It was found that the properties of trapping light for silicon nitride had a prominent impact on the improvement of the PCE in the silicon nanopillar solar cells.

Graphical abstract: Optimal design of an antireflection coating structure for enhancing the energy-conversion efficiency of a silicon nanostructure solar cell

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 May 2018
Accepted
17 Sep 2018
First published
10 Oct 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 34793-34807

Optimal design of an antireflection coating structure for enhancing the energy-conversion efficiency of a silicon nanostructure solar cell

Q. Fan, Z. Wang and Y. Cui, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 34793 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03730B

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