화학공학소재연구정보센터
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.58, No.28, 12678-12686, 2019
Nanomirror-Embedded Back Reflector Layer (BRL) for Advanced Light Management in Thin Silicon Solar Cells
This work illustrates a technology for advanced light management by introducing a nonconventional back reflector layer (BRL) in amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells. To meet this, silver sulfide (Ag2S) nanoparticles with similar to 50 nm diameter have been chosen as the nanomirror owing to its low parasitic absorption loss over a broad wavelength (300 to 1100 nm) region. The Ag2S NPs were sandwiched between two indium tin oxide (ITO) layers and placed as the back reflector layer of an a-Si:H solar cell to achieve better light trapping within the active layers. The embedded structure exhibited high reflectance (up to 93%) in the red and near-infrared region, the main working zone of a-Si:H cells. With the incorporation of such a state-of-the-art back reflector structure in a-Si:H solar cells, a photoconversion efficiency of 10.58% has been achieved, which is one of the best in this class.