Present Status of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Surfaces: A Brief Review

摘要

This is a brief review on light trapping in Si based thin film solar cells with textured surfaces and transparentconducting oxide front electrodes. The light trapping scheme appears to be essential in improving device efficiencyover 10%. As light absorption in a thin film solar cells is not sufficient, light trapping becomes necessary to beeffectively implemented with a textured surface. Surface texturing helps in the light trapping, and thereby raises shortcircuit current density and its efficiency. Such a scheme can be adapted to single junction as well as tandem solar cell,amorphous or micro-crystalline devices. A tandem cell is expected to have superior performance in comparison to asingle junction cell and random surface textures appears to be preferable to a periodic structures.