Reducing Voc loss in InGaAsP/InGaAs dual-junction solar cells
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1.State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technology Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China;2.State Key Laboratory of Space Power-sources, Shanghai Institute of Space Power-sources, Shanghai 200245, China;3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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TM914.4

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Supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (61474076 and 61704106), the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology (2017QNRC001) and Shanghai Rising-Star Program (18QB1402500 and 19QB1403800).

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    Abstract:

    Smaller Voc of 1.0eV/0.75 eV InGaAsP/InGaAs double-junction solar cell(DJSC) than the Voc sum of individual subcells has been observed, and there is little information of the origin of such Voc loss and how to minimize it. In this paper, it is disclosed that the dominant mechanism of minority-carrier transport at back-surface-field(BSF)/base interface of the bottom subcell is thermionic emission, instead of defect-induced recombination, which is in contrast to previous reports. It also shows that both InP and InAlAs cannot prevent the zinc diffusion effectively. In addition, intermixing of major III-V element occurs as a result of increasing thermal treatment. To suppress the above negative effects, an initial novel InP/InAlAs superlattice(SL) BSF layer is then proposed and employed in bottom InGaAs subcell. The Voc of fabricated cells reach 997.5 mV, and a reduction of 30 mV in Voc loss without lost of Jsc, compared with the results of conventional InP BSF configuration, is achieved. It would benefit the overall Voc for further four-junction solar cells.

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LU Hong-Bo, LI Xin-Yi, LI Ge, ZHANG Wei, HU Shu-Hong, DAI Ning, YANG Gui-Ting. Reducing Voc loss in InGaAsP/InGaAs dual-junction solar cells[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2021,40(1):7~12

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  • Received:April 16,2020
  • Revised:January 13,2021
  • Adopted:June 23,2020
  • Online: January 06,2021
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