Mirrored strain-balanced quantum well concentrator cells in the radiative limit

Details Mirrored strain-balanced quantum well concentrator cells in the radiative limit Mirrored strain-balanced quantum well concentrator cells in the radiative limit

2010-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/1006.0660v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Draft preprint of submission to ICS4 international solar concentrator photovoltaics conference, El Escorial, Spain 2007, ISBN:

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Strain-balanced Quantum Well Solar Cells (SB- QWSCs) are radiatively dominated at concentrator current levels. Incorporating back surface mirrors on the back of the doped substrate leads to a reduction in this radiative recombination current while the non-radiative dark current at lower bias remains unchanged. This work extends a previous model of radiative dark currents to cells where the substrate is not a perfectly absorbing sink for emitted luminescence by including multiple passes of photons emitted by radiative recombination. The luminescence in such mirrored structures is reduced and the radiative dark current lower. The structure is suited to concentrator applications because it corresponds to the high efficiency limit where losses due to light re-emission are limited to the solid angle for absorption of solar radiation.

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