Toward high efficiency ultra-thin CIGSe based solar cells using light management techniques

Negar Naghavi; Zacharie Jehl; Frederique Donsanti; Jean François Guillemoles; Isabelle Gérard; Muriel Bouttemy; Arnaud Etcheberry; Jean Luc Pelouard; Stéphane Collin; Clément Colin; Nicolas Péré-Laperne; Nir Dahan; Jean Jacques Greffet; Boris Morel; Zakaria Djebbour; Arouna Darga; Denis Mencaraglia; Georg Voorwinden; Bernhard Dimmler; Michael Powalla; Daniel Lincot

doi:10.1117/12.909419

Toward high efficiency ultra-thin CIGSe based solar cells using light management techniques

Negar Naghavi
, Zacharie Jehl
, Frederique Donsanti
, Jean François Guillemoles
, Isabelle Gérard
, Muriel Bouttemy
, Arnaud Etcheberry
, Jean Luc Pelouard
, Stéphane Collin
, Clément Colin
, Nicolas Péré-Laperne
, Nir Dahan
, Jean Jacques Greffet
, Boris Morel
, Zakaria Djebbour
, Arouna Darga
, Denis Mencaraglia
, Georg Voorwinden
, Bernhard Dimmler
, Michael Powalla

Daniel Lincot

Institut Photovoltaïque d'Ile-de-France
Institut Lavoisier de Versailles
Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies
Université Paris-Sud
Université Paris-Sud 11
Wuerth Elektronik Research GmbH
Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg

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Abstract

This study addresses the potential of different approaches to improve the generated current density in ultrathin Cu(In,Ga)Se ₂ (CIGSe) based solar cells down to 0.1 μm. Advanced photon management, involving both absorption enhancement and reflection reduction in the absorber, is studied. In this contribution, the three main approaches used are: - The reduction of the CIGSe thickness by chemical etching which combines thickness reduction and smoothing effect on the absorber. - Optical management by front contact engineering and by the replacement of the back contact by the "lift- off" of CIGSe layer from the Mo layer and the deposition of a new reflective back contact. - Application of plasmonic structures to CIGSe solar cells enabling light confinement at the subwavelength scale.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909419
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2012
Event	Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 23 Jan 2012 → 26 Jan 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8256
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	23/01/12 → 26/01/12

Keywords

Light management
Plasmonic
Solar cells
Ultrathin CIGSe

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Naghavi, N., Jehl, Z., Donsanti, F., Guillemoles, J. F., Gérard, I., Bouttemy, M., Etcheberry, A., Pelouard, J. L., Collin, S., Colin, C., Péré-Laperne, N., Dahan, N., Greffet, J. J., Morel, B., Djebbour, Z., Darga, A., Mencaraglia, D., Voorwinden, G., Dimmler, B., ... Lincot, D. (2012). Toward high efficiency ultra-thin CIGSe based solar cells using light management techniques. In Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices Article 825617 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8256). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909419

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Naghavi, N, Jehl, Z, Donsanti, F, Guillemoles, JF, Gérard, I, Bouttemy, M, Etcheberry, A, Pelouard, JL, Collin, S, Colin, C, Péré-Laperne, N, Dahan, N, Greffet, JJ, Morel, B, Djebbour, Z, Darga, A, Mencaraglia, D, Voorwinden, G, Dimmler, B, Powalla, M & Lincot, D 2012, Toward high efficiency ultra-thin CIGSe based solar cells using light management techniques. in Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices., 825617, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8256, Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices, San Francisco, CA, United States, 23/01/12. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909419

Toward high efficiency ultra-thin CIGSe based solar cells using light management techniques. / Naghavi, Negar; Jehl, Zacharie; Donsanti, Frederique et al.
Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices. 2012. 825617 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8256).

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