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Published in: Journal of Electronic Materials 4/2021

23-01-2021 | Original Research Article

Impact of Different Antireflection Layers on Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Solar Cells: a PC1D Simulation Study

Authors: Devendra KC, Deb Kumar Shah, Amer M. Alanazi, M. Shaheer Akhtar

Published in: Journal of Electronic Materials | Issue 4/2021

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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is currently known to be one of the reliable cost-effective materials for manufacturing solar cells. In this work, different materials such as magnesium fluoride (MgF2), aluminum trioxide (Al2O3), tin oxide (SnO2), and magnesium oxide (MgO) were applied as a single antireflection coating (ARC) layer and characterized their optoelectrical properties of the resulting CdTe solar cells. A personal computer one-dimensional (PC1D) simulation study was carried out to instigate the overall performance when varying the thickness of the absorber and window layers. Simulation results confirmed that Al2O3 single ARC layer with thickness of 83 nm achieved the best efficiency of 17.81% as compared with the other ARC materials. The Al2O3 single ARC layer resulted in a short-circuit current of 2.89 A and open-circuit voltage of 0.740 V.
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Metadata
Title
Impact of Different Antireflection Layers on Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Solar Cells: a PC1D Simulation Study
Authors
Devendra KC
Deb Kumar Shah
Amer M. Alanazi
M. Shaheer Akhtar
Publication date
23-01-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Electronic Materials / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0361-5235
Electronic ISSN: 1543-186X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08696-5

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