Single junction GaAs - Ge stacked tandem cell

Noura Al Wahshi; Ammar Nayfeh

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2014.6924917

Single junction GaAs - Ge stacked tandem cell

Noura Al Wahshi
, Ammar Nayfeh

Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

In this work, a GaAs/Ge single junction stacked thin-film solar cell is demonstrated using physics based TCAD simulation The results are compared to a single junction thin film GaAs solar cell. The results show an increase in the V_oc and J_sc up to 7% and 12% respectively, which enhanced the absolute efficiency by 4% with the Ge layer. This increase in the current is due to the increase in the utilized spectrum in the long wavelength range. In addition, we studied the effect of Ge and GaAs thickness in the performance of the GaAs/Ge stacked cell.

Original language	British English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	295-298
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479943982
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6924917
State	Published - 15 Oct 2014
Event	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014 - Denver, United States Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014

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Name	2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

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Conference	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	8/06/14 → 13/06/14

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Gallium Arsenide (GaAs)
Germanium (Ge)
tandem cell
TCAD Sentaurus device
thin films

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Al Wahshi, N & Nayfeh, A 2014, Single junction GaAs - Ge stacked tandem cell. in 2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014., 6924917, 2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 295-298, 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014, Denver, United States, 8/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6924917

Single junction GaAs - Ge stacked tandem cell. / Al Wahshi, Noura; Nayfeh, Ammar.
2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 295-298 6924917 (2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014).

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