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Impurity photovoltaic effect in silicon solar cells doped with tellurium

JIREN YUAN1,2,* , HONGLIE SHEN2,* , FULIAN ZHONG3, XINHUA DENG1

Affiliation

  1. College of Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China
  2. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, PR China
  3. Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Xinyu University, Xinyu 338004, PR China

Abstract

To improve conversion efficiency for crystalline silicon solar cells, impurity photovoltaic (IPV) effect has been proposed as an approach for application of new concept solar cell. In this paper, we have carried out a numerical study on the IPV solar cells doped with tellurium. The potential of the IPV solar cell is investigated. The influence of the light trapping on the IPV solar cell performance is discussed. It is found that cell efficiency can increase by about 3.0% due to the IPV effect. In addition, light trapping has very important impact on the IPV solar cell property. A good light trapping should be required to obtain better device performance for IPV solar cells..

Keywords

Impurity photovoltaic effect, Silicon solar cell, Tellurium.

Citation

JIREN YUAN, HONGLIE SHEN, FULIAN ZHONG, XINHUA DENG, Impurity photovoltaic effect in silicon solar cells doped with tellurium, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 8, August 2011, pp.866-869 (2011).

Submitted at: May 28, 2011

Accepted at: Aug. 10, 2011