Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9618663 | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Strain-balanced quantum well solar cells (SB-QWSC) extend the photon absorption edge beyond that of bulk GaAs by incorporation of quantum wells in the i-region of a p-i-n device. The addition of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) can substantially increase the photocurrent with little or no detriment to the dark-current. Experimental results are presented that show improvements of DBR cell efficiencies over SB-QWSC's without DBR's. In addition, at high dark-current levels appropriate to high concentration, we observe that the dark-currents of the SB-QWSC's exhibit ideal diode behaviour. We present evidence that the ideality n=1 dark-current is reduced in the DBR cells and discuss the possible efficiency improvements if the dark-current is radiatively dominant.
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Authors
D.C. Johnson, I. Ballard, K.W.J. Barnham, D.B. Bishnell, J.P. Connolly, M.C. Lynch, T.N.D. Tibbits, N.J. Ekins-Daukes, M. Mazzer, R. Airey, G. Hill, J.S. Roberts,