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Optical and electrical characteristics of highly efficient flower-shaped silicon nanowires solar cell

Authors: Amr Hisham K. Mahmoud, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Mohamed Hussein, S. S. A. Obayya

Published in: Optical and Quantum Electronics | Issue 4/2023

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This paper introduces and numerically analyzes flower-shaped nanowires (FS-NWs) with improved light harvesting. The optical and electrical characteristics are studied using the finite-difference time-domain and finite-element methods. In this study, the ultimate efficiency (η), optical generation (G), short circuit current density (J_SC), open-circuit voltage (V_oc), and electrical power conversion efficiency (PCE) are numerically computed. The geometrical parameters of the suggested FS-NWs are tuned to improve the optical absorption and hence the ultimate efficiency. The FS-NWs show higher absorption than the conventional cylindrical NWs (CC-NWs) due to the multiple resonance peaks and higher cross-section scattering in the high photon energy band. The reported FS-NWs provide an optical efficiency (η) of 35.6%, with an improvement of 11.4% over CC-NWs. This is due to the capability of the FS-NWs to trap more photons and generate more supported modes through the active absorbing layer. The reported design with axial doping junction offers an open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of 0.68 V, short circuit current density (J_SC) of 18.68 mA/cm², and PCE of 9.6%, which are better than that of CC-NWs with V_oc of 0.70 V, J_SC of 17.88 mA/cm², and PCE of 8.68%.

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Title: Optical and electrical characteristics of highly efficient flower-shaped silicon nanowires solar cell
Authors: Amr Hisham K. Mahmoud
Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed
Mohamed Hussein
S. S. A. Obayya
Publication date: 01-04-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Optical and Quantum Electronics / Issue 4/2023
Print ISSN: 0306-8919
Electronic ISSN: 1572-817X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-022-04481-2

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