Simulation and performance optimization of high efficiency triple-junction solar cells using an advanced MSCS-1D simulator

Abu Kowsar, Md. Saidul Islam, Sumon Chandra Debnath, Md. Masum Billah, Khaledun Nahar Babi, Ali Newaz Bahar, Syed Farid Uddin Farhad

Abstract


Multijunction solar cells are champions in photovoltaic literature, exhibiting the phenomenal enhancement of efficiency in recent years. Herein, a high conversion efficiency of three different combinations of triple-junction solar cells have been investigated using an advanced version of one dimensional multijunction solar cell simulator, MSCS-1D:V2. For designing and optimizing these multijunction solar cells (MJSC), 2.17 eV AlAs and 1.9 eV bandgap GaInP2 semiconducting material have been considered as top sub-cell, 1.42 eV bandgap GaAs as middle sub-cell, and 0.7 eV GaAs.92Bi.08 and 0.67 eV bandgap Ge as bottom sub-cell. These three sublayers or sub-cells of the solar cell are in lattice-matched, and this matching condition creates the facility for optical transparency. The efficiencies of the three proposed MJSC structures: GaInP2/GaAs/Ge, AlAs/GaAs/Ge, and AlAs/GaAs/GaAs.92Bi.08 have been estimated as 40.3%, 45.8% and 48.3% respectively for airmass AM1.5G. The simulated efficiency of the mentioned solar cells has been compared to the experimental data published in the photovoltaic literature and found a good harmony. 

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Device modelling; Multijunction solar cell; III-V materials; MSCS-1D; Simulator

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