TY - GEN
T1 - Numerical modeling of radiation effects in Si solar cell for space
AU - Fedoseyev, Alexandre
AU - Raman, Ashok
AU - Thomas, David
AU - Bowden, Stuart
AU - Choi, Jea Young
AU - Honsberg, Christiana
AU - Monga, Tanmay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Improvements to solar cell efficiency and radiation hardness that are compatible with low cost, high volume manufacturing processes are critical for power generation applications in future long-term NASA and DOD space missions. In this paper, we provide the results of numerical simulation of the radiation effects in a novel, ultra-thin (UT), Si photovoltaic cell technology that combines enhanced light trapping (LT) and absorption due to nanostructured surfaces, separation of photogenerated carriers by carrier selective contacts (CSC), and increased carrier density due to multiple exciton generation (MEG). Such solar cells have a potential to achieve high conversion efficiencies while shown to be rad-hard, lightweight, flexible, and low-cost, due to the use of Si high volume techniques.
AB - Improvements to solar cell efficiency and radiation hardness that are compatible with low cost, high volume manufacturing processes are critical for power generation applications in future long-term NASA and DOD space missions. In this paper, we provide the results of numerical simulation of the radiation effects in a novel, ultra-thin (UT), Si photovoltaic cell technology that combines enhanced light trapping (LT) and absorption due to nanostructured surfaces, separation of photogenerated carriers by carrier selective contacts (CSC), and increased carrier density due to multiple exciton generation (MEG). Such solar cells have a potential to achieve high conversion efficiencies while shown to be rad-hard, lightweight, flexible, and low-cost, due to the use of Si high volume techniques.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2081064
DO - 10.1117/12.2081064
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84930033307
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices IV
A2 - Sugiyama, Masakazu
A2 - Freundlich, Alexandre
A2 - Guillemoles, Jean-Francois
PB - SPIE
T2 - Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices IV
Y2 - 10 February 2015 through 12 February 2015
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