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Efficiency Improvement Above 21% of CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cell under the Influence of Optical Losses

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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This work focuses on determining theoreticaly quite accurately the optimal parameters of the CIGS cell with structure ZnO:Al/CdS/CIGS/Mo/Glass such as: thickness of CdS and the thickness of antireflection layer. The calculations of optical losses are carried out due to reflections from all interfaces and absorption in the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and n-type layers. The effect of thickness of antireflection coating above TCO surface has been taken into account. It is shown that, the amount of the optical losses is about 23%. The 100 nm thickness of the antireflection layer is sufficient to reduce these losses up to 16 %. At certain parameters of the used materials and with taking into account the reflectivity from back contact, the efficiency of CIGS has been improved and records a value of 21.27%. 

DOI

10.21608/sjsci.2020.233180

Keywords

CIGS solar cell - optical losses, antireflection layer- efficiency

Authors

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Mohamed

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Physics department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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hussein_abdelhafez2000@yahoo.com

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Sohag

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First Name

Abdelhai

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Mohamed

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Department of Physics, College of Sciences, King Saud University, 11451 Riyadh, KSA

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Riyadh

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Volume

5

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1

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33445

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2020-01-01

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2019-10-21

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2020-01-01

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1

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5

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2357-0938

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2974-4296

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Sohag Journal of Sciences

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Efficiency Improvement Above 21% of CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cell under the Influence of Optical Losses

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23 Jan 2023