Effectively Transparent Front Contacts for Optoelectronic Devices
Abstract
Effectively transparent front contacts for optoelectronic devices achieve a measured transparency of up to 99.9% and a measured sheet resistance of 4.8 Ω sq-1. These 3D microscale triangular cross-section grid fingers redirect incoming photons efficiently to the active semiconductor area and can replace standard grid fingers as well as transparent conductive oxide layers in optoelectronic devices. Optoelectronic devices such as light emitting diodes, photodiodes, and solar cells play an important and expanding role in modern technology. Photovoltaics is one of the largest optoelectronic industry sectors and an ever-increasing component of the world's rapidly growing renewable carbon-free electricity generation infrastructure. In recent years, the photovoltaics field has dramatically expanded owing to the large-scale manufacture of inexpensive crystalline Si and thin film cells and modules. The current record efficiency (η = 25.6%) Si solar cell utilizes a heterostructure intrinsic thin layer (HIT) design[1] to enable increased open circuit voltage, while more mass-manufacturable solar cell architectures feature front contacts.[2, 3] Thus improved solar cell front contact designs are important for future large-scale photovoltaics with even higher efficiency.
- Authors:
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics and Materials Science
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1281327
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1281328; OSTI ID: 1425154
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0006335; EE0004946; EEC-1041895
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Optical Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Optical Materials Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2195-1071
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 14 SOLAR ENERGY
Citation Formats
Saive, Rebecca, Borsuk, Aleca M., Emmer, Hal S., Bukowsky, Colton R., Lloyd, John V., Yalamanchili, Sisir, and Atwater, Harry A. Effectively Transparent Front Contacts for Optoelectronic Devices. Germany: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/adom.201600252.
Saive, Rebecca, Borsuk, Aleca M., Emmer, Hal S., Bukowsky, Colton R., Lloyd, John V., Yalamanchili, Sisir, & Atwater, Harry A. Effectively Transparent Front Contacts for Optoelectronic Devices. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201600252
Saive, Rebecca, Borsuk, Aleca M., Emmer, Hal S., Bukowsky, Colton R., Lloyd, John V., Yalamanchili, Sisir, and Atwater, Harry A. Fri .
"Effectively Transparent Front Contacts for Optoelectronic Devices". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201600252.
@article{osti_1281327,
title = {Effectively Transparent Front Contacts for Optoelectronic Devices},
author = {Saive, Rebecca and Borsuk, Aleca M. and Emmer, Hal S. and Bukowsky, Colton R. and Lloyd, John V. and Yalamanchili, Sisir and Atwater, Harry A.},
abstractNote = {Effectively transparent front contacts for optoelectronic devices achieve a measured transparency of up to 99.9% and a measured sheet resistance of 4.8 Ω sq-1. These 3D microscale triangular cross-section grid fingers redirect incoming photons efficiently to the active semiconductor area and can replace standard grid fingers as well as transparent conductive oxide layers in optoelectronic devices. Optoelectronic devices such as light emitting diodes, photodiodes, and solar cells play an important and expanding role in modern technology. Photovoltaics is one of the largest optoelectronic industry sectors and an ever-increasing component of the world's rapidly growing renewable carbon-free electricity generation infrastructure. In recent years, the photovoltaics field has dramatically expanded owing to the large-scale manufacture of inexpensive crystalline Si and thin film cells and modules. The current record efficiency (η = 25.6%) Si solar cell utilizes a heterostructure intrinsic thin layer (HIT) design[1] to enable increased open circuit voltage, while more mass-manufacturable solar cell architectures feature front contacts.[2, 3] Thus improved solar cell front contact designs are important for future large-scale photovoltaics with even higher efficiency.},
doi = {10.1002/adom.201600252},
journal = {Advanced Optical Materials},
number = 10,
volume = 4,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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