Six-Junction Concentrator Solar Cells

Geisz, John F; Steiner, Myles A; Schulte, Kevin L; Young, Matthew R; France, Ryan M; Friedman, Daniel J

doi:10.1063/1.5053512

Title: Six-Junction Concentrator Solar Cells

Conference · Thu Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5053512· OSTI ID:1475512

Geisz, John F ^[1];

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

We report on six-junction inverted metamorphic (6J IMM) solar cells developed for concentrator applications. Monolithic III-V structures are grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy with junction bandgaps of 2.06, 1.70, 1.40, 1.16, 0.94, and 0.70 eV. The top three junctions are lattice-matched to the GaAs substrate, but the bottom three junctions use three consecutive metamorphic compositionally graded buffers to transition the lattice constant to GaxIn1-xAs compositions with the previously listed bandgaps. Performance of 6J IMM devices at one-sun AM1.5 Direct conditions gives VOC = 5.301 V, JSC = 8.05 mA/cm2, fill factor=83.9%, and efficiency=35.8%. Promising operation at high concentration is achieved but the spectrum was not controlled to AM1.5D. Tunnel junctions do not limit until at least several hundred suns. High concentration performance appears to be limited by internal heterojunction barriers created by zinc diffusion that decreases the fill factor. The properties of each junction within the 6J IMM have been separately characterized through electroluminescence and luminescent coupling measurements.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1475512

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5900-71300

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at the 14th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (CPV-14), 16-18 April 2018, Puertollano, Spain

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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