Impurity photovoltaic effect in silicon solar cell doped with sulphur: A numerical simulation |
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Authors: | Ghania Azzouzi Mohamed Chegaar |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, Ferhat Abbas University, 19000 Setif, Algeria |
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Abstract: | The impurity photovoltaic effect (IPV) has mostly been studied in various semiconductors such as silicon, silicon carbide and GaAs in order to increase infrared absorption and hence cell efficiency. In this work, sulphur is used as the IPV effect impurity incorporated in silicon solar cells. For our simulation we use the numerical device simulator (SCAPS). We calculate the solar cell performances (short circuit current density Jsc, open circuit voltage Voc, conversion efficiency η and quantum efficiency QE). We study the influence of light trapping and certain impurity parameters like impurity concentration and position in the gap on the solar cell performances. Simulation results for IPV effect on silicon doped with sulphur show an improvement of the short circuit current and the efficiency for sulphur energy levels located far from the middle of the band gap especially at Ec-Et=0.18 eV. |
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Keywords: | Impurity photovoltaic effect Silicon solar cell performances SCAPS simulator |
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