Optimization of moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells

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Nanostructured moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells are simulated using rigorous coupled wave analysis and compared to traditional thin film coatings. The design of the moth-eye arrays is optimized for application to a laboratory cell (air-silicon interface) and an encapsulated cell (EVA-silicon interface), and the optimization accounts for the solar spectrum, incident on the silicon interface in both cells, and the spectral response of both types of cell. The optimized moth-eye designs are predicted to outperform an optimized double layer thin film coating by approximately 2% for the laboratory cell and approximately 3% for the encapsulated cell. The predicted performance of the silicon moth-eye under encapsulation is particularly remarkable as it exhibits losses of only 0-6% compared to an ideal AR surface. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Boden, S. A., & Bagnall, D. M. (2010). Optimization of moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 18(3), 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.951

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