TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells

The performance of solar cells has improved quickly in recent years, the latest research focuses on thin cells, multijunction cells, solar cells of the group III-V compounds, Tandem cells, etc. In the present work, numerical simulations are developed, using SENTAURUS TCAD as a tool, in order to obta...

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Autores principales:	Palacios A., César, Guerra, Noemi, Guevara, Marco, José López, María
Formato:	Online
Idioma:	spa
Publicado:	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panamá 2018
Acceso en línea:	https://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/id-tecnologico/article/view/2078

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spelling	IDTEC20782019-02-11T17:29:02Z TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells Palacios A., César Guerra, Noemi Guevara, Marco José López, María The performance of solar cells has improved quickly in recent years, the latest research focuses on thin cells, multijunction cells, solar cells of the group III-V compounds, Tandem cells, etc. In the present work, numerical simulations are developed, using SENTAURUS TCAD as a tool, in order to obtain a solar cell model based on Galium Arsenide (GaAs). This solar cell corresponds to the so-called "Thin Films" due to the fact that can make layers thinner than we would have if we work with conventional semiconductors, such as; Silicon or Germanium; thus opening the possibility of placing the cell as a top layer within a tandem solar cell configuration with compounds of group III-V. That is why two types of simulations are performed with respect to the contact of the rear contact; one corresponds to the cell with a lower contact equal to the length of the cell and the other with a small contact of 5 μm. In addition, the cell undergoes an optimization process by modifying the geometry and doping of the layers that comprise it, in order to improve its performance. To achieve this objective, the initial conditions and the appropriate simulation parameters must be determined, which have been selected and corroborated with the literature, allowing us to arrive at coherent results and optimal models of solar cell design through numerical simulations. Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panamá 2018-12-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/id-tecnologico/article/view/2078 10.33412/idt.v14.2.2078 I+D Tecnológico; Vol. 14 Núm. 2 (2018): Revista de I+D Tecnológico; 96-107 2219-6714 1680-8894 spa https://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/id-tecnologico/article/view/2078/3033 https://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/id-tecnologico/article/view/2078/3066 Derechos de autor 2018 I+D Tecnológico http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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description	The performance of solar cells has improved quickly in recent years, the latest research focuses on thin cells, multijunction cells, solar cells of the group III-V compounds, Tandem cells, etc. In the present work, numerical simulations are developed, using SENTAURUS TCAD as a tool, in order to obtain a solar cell model based on Galium Arsenide (GaAs). This solar cell corresponds to the so-called "Thin Films" due to the fact that can make layers thinner than we would have if we work with conventional semiconductors, such as; Silicon or Germanium; thus opening the possibility of placing the cell as a top layer within a tandem solar cell configuration with compounds of group III-V. That is why two types of simulations are performed with respect to the contact of the rear contact; one corresponds to the cell with a lower contact equal to the length of the cell and the other with a small contact of 5 μm. In addition, the cell undergoes an optimization process by modifying the geometry and doping of the layers that comprise it, in order to improve its performance. To achieve this objective, the initial conditions and the appropriate simulation parameters must be determined, which have been selected and corroborated with the literature, allowing us to arrive at coherent results and optimal models of solar cell design through numerical simulations.
title	TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells
title_short	TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells
title_full	TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells
title_fullStr	TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells
title_full_unstemmed	TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells
title_sort	tcad 2d numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of algaas – gaas solar cells
publisher	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panamá
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TCAD 2D numerical simulations for increasing efficiency of AlGaAs – GaAs Solar Cells

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