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Ndiaye, Saliou
- Surface Recombination of Excitons in Solar Cells
Authors
1 Laboratoire Des Semi-Conducteurs Et D’Energie Solaire De La, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop De DAKAR, BP-5005, Dakar, Fann, SN
Source
International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology, Vol 5, No 10 (2016), Pagination: 482-484Abstract
We studied the influence of parameters that govern the surface recombination of excitons in a silicon solar cell subjected to a monochromatic illumination.In this study we considered two values of the exciton binding coefficient, b=3×10-7cm3 s-1 and b=10-15cm3 s-1, corresponding to strong coupling and weak coupling. We also defined a recombination velocity of excitons Sex reflecting loss of these pseudo particles to metal-semiconductor contacts. The study of excitonic recombination boils down to study the influence of recombination velocity Sex on the carrier density. This study found that the recombination of excitons has no impact on electrons density when the coupling is low because exciton and electron diffuse independently with their own diffusion length. However, in the strong coupling we have a negative effect of this parameter on the densities of electrons and excitons. We note also that in these conditions the increase of the electron recombination velocity results in lower of excitons density. These results confirm the coupling theory between electron and exciton developed by R. Corkish and Y. Zhang.
Keywords
Exciton, Coupling Coefficient, Exciton Recombination, Excitonic Conversion.- Simulation Study of Optical Reflection and Transmission Properties of the Anti-Reflection Coatings on the Silicon Solar Cells
Authors
1 Laboratoires des Semi-Conducteurs et D’energie Solaire, Departement de Physique, FST-UCAD, SN
Source
International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology, Vol 5, No 3 (2016), Pagination: 161-164Abstract
Solar cells thin layers are increasingly used in the last decades the performance of these cells were clearly improved. In the present work, we simulated a silicon solar cell to analyse certain parameters. Particularly the antireflective properties of the layer (thickness, refractive index) play a crucial role in the performance of the cell, and to optimize them, we studied their effect on the quantities of photovoltaic solar cell. In order to highlight the importance of the testimony of an antireflection coating (SARC) on silicon solar cells a comparison between two cells, one without anti-reflective layer (bare silicon), the other with a layer antireflection was made. The deposition of an antireflection coating shows a significant improvement is in addition to the benefits of the change or not the latter.
The reflection, transmission intensity and amplitude recorded by a simple matrix method are consistent with the literature.