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The Effect of Base Thickness on Photoconversion Efficiency in Textured Silicon-Based Solar Cells

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A theory is developed, which describes the experimental external quantum efficiency, EQE(λ) as a function of photon wavelength for structured Si-based solar cells. Short-circuit current density as a function of base thickness, d, is calculated for the high-efficiency solar cells with the photoconversion efficiency η ≥ 25% The procedure allows one to carry out a complete optimization of such solar cells, in particular, to find the optimal base thickness, dopt.

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  1. V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

    A. V. Sachenko, V. P. Kostylyov, V. N. Vlasyuk & I. O. Sokolovskyi

  2. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    A. V. Bobyl, E. I. Terukov & M. Z. Shvarts

  3. St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”, St. Petersburg, Russia

    G. A. Konoplev & E. I. Terukov

  4. Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

    M. Evstigneev

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Sachenko, V.P. Kostylyov, A.V. Bobyl, V.N. Vlasyuk, I.O. Sokolovskyi, G.A. Konoplev, E.I. Terukov, M.Z. Shvarts, M. Evstigneev, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 19, pp. 40–49.

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Sachenko, A.V., Kostylyov, V.P., Bobyl, A.V. et al. The Effect of Base Thickness on Photoconversion Efficiency in Textured Silicon-Based Solar Cells. Tech. Phys. Lett. 44, 873–876 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785018100139

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