Numerical Simulation, Preparation, and Evaluation of Cu(In, Ga)Se2 (CIGS) Thin-Film Solar Cells

Modelling and Degradation Characteristics of Thin-film CIGS Solar Cells

Optical Simulation of Light Management in CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells Using Finite Element Method

In this paper we present an optical simulation of light management in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells with reduced absorber layer thickness, with the goal of absorption enhancement in the absorber layer. The light management was achieved by texturing of the substrate layer, and the conformal growth of all the following layers was assumed. Two texturing shapes have been explored: triangular a...

Numerical Simulation of CdS/CIGS Tandem Multi-Junction Solar Cells with AMPS-1D

Numerical modeling of polycrystalline thin-film solar cell serves as an imperative procedure to test the suitability of proposed physical clarification and to anticipate the effect of physical changes on cell performance. All in all, this must be conducted with only partial knowledge of input parameters. In this paper, we evaluated the numerical simulation of CdS/CIGS tandem multi junction sola...

PACS numbers: 78.20.Bh, 73.40.Lq, 84.60.Jt SIMULATION OF CIGS THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS USING AMPS-1D

The solar cell structure based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) as the absorber layer, cadmium sulfide (CdS) as a buffer layer un-doped (i) and Aluminium (Al) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) as a window layer was simulated using the one dimensional simulation program called analysis of microelectronic and photonic structures (AMPS-1D). In the simulation, the thickness of CIGS layer was varied ...

Optical Design of Textured Thin-Film CIGS Solar Cells with Nearly-Invisible Nanowire Assisted Front Contacts

The conductivity of transparent front contacts can be improved by patterned metallic nanowires, albeit at the cost of optical loss. The associated optical penalty can be strongly reduced by texturization of the cell stack. Remarkably, the nanowires themselves are not textured and not covered in our design. This was shown by optical modeling where the width of the nanowire, the texture height an...