Buffer layer between a planar optical concentrator and a solar cell
| Author(s) | Solano, Manuel E. | |
| Author(s) | Barber, Greg D. | |
| Author(s) | Lakhtakia, Akhlesh | |
| Author(s) | Faryad, Muhammad | |
| Author(s) | Monk, Peter B. | |
| Author(s) | Mallouk, Thomas E. | |
| Ordered Author | Manuel E. Solano, Greg D. Barber, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Muhammad Faryad, Peter B. Monk and Thomas E. Mallouk | |
| UD Author | Monk, Peter B. | en_US |
| Date Accessioned | 2015-12-15T19:24:58Z | |
| Date Available | 2015-12-15T19:24:58Z | |
| Copyright Date | Copyright ©Author(s) 2015 | en_US |
| Publication Date | 2015-09-15 | |
| Description | Publisher's PDF. | en_US |
| Abstract | The effect of inserting a buffer layer between a periodically multilayered isotropic dielectric (PMLID) material acting as a planar optical concentrator and a photovoltaic solar cell was theoretically investigated. The substitution of the photovoltaic material by a cheaper dielectric material in a large area of the structure could reduce the fabrication costs without significantly reducing the efficiency of the solar cell. Both crystalline silicon (c-Si) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) were considered as the photovoltaic material. We found that the buffer layer can act as an antireflection coating at the interface of the PMLID and the photovoltaic materials, and the structure increases the spectrally averaged electron-hole pair density by 36% for c-Si and 38% for GaAs compared to the structure without buffer layer. Numerical evidence indicates that the optimal structure is robust with respect to small changes in the grating profile. | en_US |
| Department | University of Delaware. Department of Mathematical Sciences. | en_US |
| Citation | Solano ME, Barber GD, Lakhtakia A, Faryad M, Monk PB, Mallouk TE. Buffer layer between a planar optical concentrator and a solar cell. AIP Advances. 2015;5(9):097150. | en_US |
| DOI | doi:10.1063/1.4931386 | en_US |
| ISSN | 2158-3226 | en_US |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17316 | |
| Language | en_US | en_US |
| Publisher | American Institute of Physics | en_US |
| dc.rights | CC-BY 3.0 | en_US |
| dc.source | AIP Advances | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | 2158-3226 | en_US |
| Title | Buffer layer between a planar optical concentrator and a solar cell | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
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