Design Multilayer Antireflection Coatings for Terrestrial Solar Cells

نویسندگان

  • Feng Zhan
  • Zhipeng Li
  • Xiaoming Shen
  • Huan He
  • Jianmin Zeng
چکیده

In order to analyze the influence of methods to design antireflection coatings (ARCs) on reflectivity of broadband solar cells, we provide detailed analyses about the ARC coupled with a window layer and the refractive index dispersion effect of each layer. By multidimensional matrix data simulation, two methods were employed to measure the composite reflection of a SiO2/ZnS double-layer ARC within the spectral ranges of 300-870 nm (dual junction) and 300-1850 nm (triple junction) under AM1.5 solar radiation. A comparison study, between the results obtained from the commonly used weighted average reflectance method (WAR) and that from the introduced effective average reflectance method (EAR), shows that the optimization of ARC by EAR method is convenient and feasible.

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دوره 2014  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014