Effect of illumination and electric field intensity on the efficiency improvement of amorphous silicon tandem solar cells

Data di pubblicazione: 21 Dic 2016

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Autori: Salvatore Lombardo, Andrea Scuto, Cosimo Gerardi, A. Battaglia, S. Lombardo

The improvement of tandem hydrogenated amorphous/microcrystalline Si solar cells under prolonged exposure to reverse bias direct current electric fields and illumination has been investigated. In this work, the authors show that the application of reverse bias stress in the presence of illumination slows down the solar cell ageing kinetics (caused mainly by the Staebler–Wronski effect and by the increase in the series resistance) and, in suitable conditions, it produces an improvement of the solar cell characteristic parameters as a function of stress time. The authors discuss the effect of temperature, electric field intensity, and illumination level.

Fonte
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena
Volume
35
Fascicolo
1
Citazioni
4
ID archivio
6534142bcb10ddc7dc0b55127f616985
Riferimenti
Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Pages: 01A106