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Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations

This paper presents several numerical simulations to obtain an optimized model for AlGaAs-GaAs solar cell, using the TCAD simulator of Sentaurus. First an updated review of the state of the art in the development of GaAs solar cell is provided, with emphasis on the AlGaAs-GaAs cells. Secondly, a set...

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Autores Principales:	Palacios, César, Guerra, Noemi, Guevara, Marco, Crupi, Felice
Formato:	Artículo
Idioma:	Español
Publicado:	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá 2018
Materias:	AlGaAs-Gas solar cell; solar energy; photovoltaics; numerical simulations; TCAD; Sentaurus, transfer matrix method; raytracing
Acceso en línea:	http://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/memoutp/article/view/1798 http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/5720

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spelling	RepoUTP57202019-11-29T17:34:15Z Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations Palacios, César Guerra, Noemi Guevara, Marco Crupi, Felice AlGaAs-Gas solar cell; solar energy; photovoltaics; numerical simulations; TCAD; Sentaurus, transfer matrix method; raytracing This paper presents several numerical simulations to obtain an optimized model for AlGaAs-GaAs solar cell, using the TCAD simulator of Sentaurus. First an updated review of the state of the art in the development of GaAs solar cell is provided, with emphasis on the AlGaAs-GaAs cells. Secondly, a set of theoretically derived characteristics is given for this type of solar cells. Then, a comparison between two solar cell architectures is considered, one with a full metalized back contact and other with a back contact of 5μm. To resolve the optical and electrical characteristics of the solar cell, some methods can be used by TCAD Sentaurus. The transfer matrix method (TMM) and the Raytracing approach are implemented to solve the optical part of the cell. Instead, for the electrical part, the resolution of the semiconductor equations, principally the Poisson equation, was computed. At the end of the work an optimization phase of the solar cell was made, in order to search the technological parameters leading to optimal performances of the cells, the effects of the doping level and the thicknesses of the base, bsf and emitter layers were also investigated. 2018-06-04 2018-12-04T14:32:09Z 2018-12-04T14:32:09Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/memoutp/article/view/1798 http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/5720 spa http://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/memoutp/article/view/1798/2589 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Memorias de Congresos UTP; 2018: 3er Congreso Internacional de Ciencias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo Sostenible 2018; 126-133
institution	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
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language	Español
topic	AlGaAs-Gas solar cell; solar energy; photovoltaics; numerical simulations; TCAD; Sentaurus, transfer matrix method; raytracing
spellingShingle	AlGaAs-Gas solar cell; solar energy; photovoltaics; numerical simulations; TCAD; Sentaurus, transfer matrix method; raytracing Palacios, César Guerra, Noemi Guevara, Marco Crupi, Felice Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
description	This paper presents several numerical simulations to obtain an optimized model for AlGaAs-GaAs solar cell, using the TCAD simulator of Sentaurus. First an updated review of the state of the art in the development of GaAs solar cell is provided, with emphasis on the AlGaAs-GaAs cells. Secondly, a set of theoretically derived characteristics is given for this type of solar cells. Then, a comparison between two solar cell architectures is considered, one with a full metalized back contact and other with a back contact of 5μm. To resolve the optical and electrical characteristics of the solar cell, some methods can be used by TCAD Sentaurus. The transfer matrix method (TMM) and the Raytracing approach are implemented to solve the optical part of the cell. Instead, for the electrical part, the resolution of the semiconductor equations, principally the Poisson equation, was computed. At the end of the work an optimization phase of the solar cell was made, in order to search the technological parameters leading to optimal performances of the cells, the effects of the doping level and the thicknesses of the base, bsf and emitter layers were also investigated.
format	Artículo
author	Palacios, César Guerra, Noemi Guevara, Marco Crupi, Felice
author_sort	Palacios, César
title	Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
title_short	Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
title_full	Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
title_fullStr	Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
title_full_unstemmed	Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations
title_sort	design of high-efficiency gaas solar cells based on tcad 2d numerical simulations
publisher	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
publishDate	2018
url	http://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/memoutp/article/view/1798 http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/5720
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Design of High-Efficiency GaAs Solar Cells Based on TCAD 2D Numerical Simulations

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