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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik
MM 14: Materials for Storage and Conversion of Energy (joint session MM/KFM)
MM 14.5: Talk
Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 11:15–11:30, H46
Enhanced efficiency of graphene-silicon Schottky junction solar cell through inverted pyramid arrays texturation — •Jiajia Qiu1,2, Huaping Zhao1, Wenhui Ma2, and Yong Lei1 — 1Fachgebiet Angewandte Nanophysik, Institut für Physik & IMN MacroNano, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany — 2State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Recently, a growing interest of incorporating graphene (Gr) with silicon (Si) to develop Gr-Si Schottky junction solar cells is considered as a potential low-cost alternative to the conventional p-n junction silicon solar cells. In this work, silicon nanowries (SiNWs) and silicon inverted pyramid arrays (SiIPs) were introduced on surface of Gr-Si solar cell through silver and copper-catalyzed chemical etching, respectively. The effects of SiNWs and SiIPs on carrier lifetime, optical properties and efficiency of Gr-SiNWs/SiIPs solar cell were systematically analyzed. The results show that the inverted pyramid arrays have ability of balance of antireflectance and surface area simultaneously. Compared to the Gr-SiNWs solar cells, power conversion efficiency (PEC) and carrier lifetime of Gr-SiIPs devices increase by 62% and 34%, respectively. Finally, the Gr-SiIPs cell with efficiency of 5.63% was successfully achieved through doping nitric acid. This work proposes a new strategy to introduce the inverted pyramid arrays for improving the performance of Gr-Si solar cells.