A new kind of superimposing morphology for enhancing the light scattering in thin film silicon solar cells：Combining random and periodic structure

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/8/084205

Abstract In this article, a new type of superimposing morphology comprised of a periodic nanostructure and a random structure is proposed for the first time to enhance the light scattering in silicon-based thin film solar cells. According to the framework of the Reyleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction algorithm and the experimental results of random morphologies, we analyze the light-scattering properties of four superimposing morphologies and compare them with the individual morphologies in detail. The results indicate that the superimposing morphology can offer a better light trapping capacity, owing to the coexistence of the random scattering mechanism and the periodic scattering mechanism. Its scattering property will be dominated by the individual nanostructures whose geometrical features play the leading role.

Keywords: light scattering superimposing morphology random periodic

Received: 21 September 2013
Revised: 01 February 2014
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PACS:	42.79.-e	(Optical elements, devices, and systems)
	88.50.gj	(Modeling, design)
	88.40.jj	(Silicon solar cells)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CBA00705, 2011CBA00706, and 2011CBA00707), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61377031), the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (Grant No. 12JCQNJC01000), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, China (Grant No. 20120031120044), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 65012371).

Corresponding Authors: Zhao Ying
E-mail: jjzhang@nankai.edu.cn

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Huang Zhen-Hua (黄振华), Zhang Jian-Jun (张建军), Ni Jian (倪牮), Wang Hao (王昊), Zhao Ying (赵颖) A new kind of superimposing morphology for enhancing the light scattering in thin film silicon solar cells：Combining random and periodic structure 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 084205

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