Title | A Novel Design in Strain-Balanced Super-Lattice Solar Cell towards an Efficient Carrier Transport and Breaking the Strain-Balance Bottleneck of Deep Well Structure |
Author(s) | YunPeng Wang, Hassanet Sodabanlu, Kentaroh Watanabe, Shaojun Ma, Masakazu Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Nakano |
Keywords | Carrier Transport, Strain-balance Superlattice Solar Cell |
Topic | MATERIAL STUDIES, NEW CONCEPTS, ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY |
Subtopic | Fundamental Material Studies |
Event | 28th EU PVSEC |
Session | 1BO.10.3 |
Pages manuscript | 28 - 30 |
ISBN | 3-936338-33-7 |
DOI | 10.4229/28thEUPVSEC2013-1BO.10.3 |
Strain-balanced super-lattice (SL) has been proved as a really potential structure to tune the bandgap of one junction in a tandem solar cell to achieve the optimized design as well as to pursue high efficiency single junction solar cell. Comparing with normal multi-quantum well solar cell, it takes advantage of a minimized drop in open circuit voltage which is due to the unique and rapid carrier transport mechanism. Additionally, strain balance technique is very significant to implement such a complicated structure with minimum defects related loss. In this report, we focus on how to make a simple and smart design for the thin period structure growth. A strain compensation layer outside active (super-lattice) region has been proposed to allow efficient carrier tunneling through thin barrier layer while maintain the overall strain balance of entire solar cell.