Extended FF and VOCParameterizations for Silicon Solar Cells

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  • Karsten Bothe
  • David Hinken
  • Rolf Brendel

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  • Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (ISFH)
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)787-792
Seitenumfang6
FachzeitschriftIEEE journal of photovoltaics
Jahrgang13
Ausgabenummer6
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 14 Sept. 2023

Abstract

This work is concerned with maximal and currently obtained fill factors of crystalline silicon solar cells. Recent research activities have led to a drastically decreased recombination in the volume as well as at the surfaces and interfaces of crystalline silicon solar cells. As a result, open-circuit voltages (V OC) and fill factor (FF) values increased significantly. In order to classify how good the achieved improvements are, it is necessary to know the maximum achievable values. Unfortunately, there is no explicit expression for the FF in terms of other characteristic solar cell parameters. For this reason, the empirical FF 0-relation by Green is widely used to predict upper FF bounds for a given VOC. In order to evaluate to what extent Green's relation is a good approximation to recently obtained values, we study FF-V OC relations for ideal resistance-free single junction silicon solar cells limited by intrinsic recombination using state-of-the-art analytical models. The obtained upper bounds are compared with recently published record values showing that all values stay below the intrinsic limit. We provide parameterizations of V OC and FF as a function of sample thickness w and base dopant density Ndop.

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Extended FF and VOCParameterizations for Silicon Solar Cells. / Bothe, Karsten; Hinken, David; Brendel, Rolf.
in: IEEE journal of photovoltaics, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 6, 14.09.2023, S. 787-792.

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Bothe K, Hinken D, Brendel R. Extended FF and VOCParameterizations for Silicon Solar Cells. IEEE journal of photovoltaics. 2023 Sep 14;13(6):787-792. doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2023.3309932
Bothe, Karsten ; Hinken, David ; Brendel, Rolf. / Extended FF and VOCParameterizations for Silicon Solar Cells. in: IEEE journal of photovoltaics. 2023 ; Jahrgang 13, Nr. 6. S. 787-792.
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