19%-efficient and 43m-thick crystalline Si solar cell from layer transfer using porous silicon Jan Hendrik Petermann1,*,

Dimitri Zielke1, Jan Schmidt1, Felix Haase1, Enrique Garralaga Rojas1, Rolf Brendel1,2 Article first published online: 21 JUL 2011 DOI: 10.1002/pip.1129 Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
We present a both-sides-contacted thin-film crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell with a confirmed AM1.5 efficiency of 2 19.1% using the porous silicon layer transfer process. The aperture area o f the cell is 3.98cm . This is the highest efficiency ever reported for transferred Si cells. The efficiency improvement over the prior state of the art (16.9%) is achieved by implementing recent developments for Si wafer cells such as surface passivation with aluminum oxide 2 and laser ablation for contacting. The cell has a short-circuit current density of 37.8mAcm , an open-circuit voltage of 650mV, and a fill factor of 77.6%.

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Optics Communications
Volume 310, 1 January 2014, Pages 1924

Optical absorption enhancement of nanoconical frustum arrays texturing for c-Si film solar cells
Peihua Wangyang, Qingkang WangCorresponding author contact information, E-mail the corresponding author, Kexiang Hu, Xiangqian Shen Key Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication Technology of Ministry of Education, Research Institute of Micro/Nano-Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

In this work, we demonstrate silicon thin film with square nanoconical frustum arrays decorated surface via simulation for photovoltaic application. An ultimate efficiency of optimized silicon square nanoconical frustum (SiSNF) arrays based solar cells is up to 31.60%, 3.47% higher than that of silicon thin film based solar cells with silicon hexagonal nanoconical frustum (SiHNF) arrays textured surface, which is close to the perfect Yablonovitch surface. The enhanced ultimate efficiency of SiSNF arrays is insensitive to top diameter and incident light angle. The underlying absorption enhancement mechanism behind the observation is also discussed.