TY - GEN
T1 - Materials for Antireflection Coatings in Photovoltaics—An Overview
AU - Mehta, Vishal
AU - Conkel, Cory
AU - Cochran, Andrew
AU - Ravindra, N. M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The ability to maximize the reflectance losses due to silicon is of paramount importance in the design, fabrication, and operation of silicon solar cells. Optimally designed antireflection coatings are required to improve photon collection in solar cells. For efficient performance, solar cells need to have low reflectance and high absorptance in the visible to near-infrared region. In this study, reflectance due to varying thicknesses of various dielectrics such as aluminum oxide (Al2O3), silicon dioxide (SiO2), titanium dioxide (TiO2), magnesium fluoride (MgF2), and silicon nitride (Si3N4) has been simulated in the range of visible to near infrared by mathematical modelling using MATLAB simulations. The results of the evolution of spectral properties, as a function of dielectric material thickness, on silicon substrates are presented.
AB - The ability to maximize the reflectance losses due to silicon is of paramount importance in the design, fabrication, and operation of silicon solar cells. Optimally designed antireflection coatings are required to improve photon collection in solar cells. For efficient performance, solar cells need to have low reflectance and high absorptance in the visible to near-infrared region. In this study, reflectance due to varying thicknesses of various dielectrics such as aluminum oxide (Al2O3), silicon dioxide (SiO2), titanium dioxide (TiO2), magnesium fluoride (MgF2), and silicon nitride (Si3N4) has been simulated in the range of visible to near infrared by mathematical modelling using MATLAB simulations. The results of the evolution of spectral properties, as a function of dielectric material thickness, on silicon substrates are presented.
KW - Antireflection coating
KW - Optical properties
KW - Silicon
KW - Solar cell
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-92381-5_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-92381-5_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125242135
SN - 9783030923808
T3 - Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
SP - 350
EP - 365
BT - TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting and Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 151st Annual Meeting and Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2022
Y2 - 27 February 2022 through 3 March 2022
ER -