Coupled optical and electrical modeling of solar cell based on conical pore silicon photonic crystals
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We compare the efficiency of thin film photonic crystal solar cells consisting of conical pores and nanowires. Solving both Maxwell's equations and the semiconductor drift-diffusion in each geometry, we identify optimal junction and contact positions and study the influence of bulk and surface recombination losses on solar cell efficiency. We find that using only 1 lm of silicon, sculpted in the form of an inverted slanted conical pore photonic crystal film, and using standard contact recombination velocities, solar power conversion efficiency of 17.5% is obtained when the carrier diffusion length exceeds 10 lm. Reducing the contact recombination velocity to 100 cm s À1 yields efficiency up to 22.5%. Further efficiency improvements are possible (with 1 lm of silicon) in a tandem cell with amorphous silicon at the top.
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