| Titre : | The effect of permittivity on CIGS solar cells |
| Auteurs : | Hizia Arbia, Auteur ; Noureddine Sengouga, Directeur de thèse |
| Type de document : | Monographie imprimée |
| Editeur : | Biskra [Algérie] : Faculté des Sciences Exactes et des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Mohamed Khider, 2019 |
| Format : | 1 vol. (60 p.): couv. ill. en coul / 29 cm |
| Langues: | Français |
| Mots-clés: | Permittivity,CIGS solar cells,numerical simulation,J-V characteristic,SCAPS software. |
| Résumé : |
SCAPS software is used to study the effect of the relative permittivity on CIGS based solar cells. It is found that whenever the |
| Sommaire : |
KNOWLEDGMENT..................................................................................................................II LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS...................................................................................................III LIST OF TABLES....................................................................................................................IV LIST OF FIGURES...................................................................................................................X GENERAL INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................XI CHAPTER I: Generalities about solar cells .......................................................................... 0 I.1 Introduction ................................................................... .......................................................1 I.2 The photovoltaic effect (PV)................................................................................................ 2 I.3 The p-n junction ................................................................................................................... 2 I.4 The solar cell ........................................................................................................................ 3 I.4.1 Definition..................................................................................................................3 I.4.2 Solar cell work principle...........................................................................................3 I.4.3 Current -voltage characteristics of a solar cell...........................................................4 I.4.4 Equivalent electrical circuit of a solar cell................................................................5 I.4.5 Figures of merit of a solar cell................................................................................ 5 I.4.5.1 Short circuit current (Isc).............................................................................. 5 I.4.5.2 The open-circuit voltage (Voc)..................................................................... 5 I.4.5.3 The maximum power (Pm)............................................................................6 I.4.5.4 Fill factor (FF)............................................................................................... 6 I.4.5.5 Efficiency (η)................................................................................................. 7 I.4.5.6 The Quantum Efficiency................................................................................7 I.4.5.7 The spectral response (SR (λ)).......................................................................7 I.4.6 The three generations of solar cells......................................................................... 8 I.4.6.1 First Generation Solar Cell-Wafer Based............................................................. 8 I.4.6.1.a Single/Mono-Crystalline Silicon solar cell...............................................8 I.4.6.1.b Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell (Poly Si or Mc-Si)...............................9 I.4.6.2 Second generation solar cell –thin film solar cells.............................................. 1 I.4.6.2.a Amorphous Silicon Thin Film (a-Si) Solar Cell................................. 10 I.4.6.2.b Cadmium Telluride CdTe Thin Film Solar Cell..................................11 I.4.6.2.c CIS/CIGS/CIGSS thin film solar cell.................................................12 I.4.6.3 Third Generation Solar Cells....................................................................................12 I.4.6.3.a Nano Cristal Based Solar Cells......................................................................12 I.4.6.3.b Polymer Solar Cell..................................................................................….13 I.4.6.3.c Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC)...............................................................13 I.4.6.3.d Organic solar cell..........................................................................................14 I.4.6.3.e Perovskite Solar Cell.....................................................................................15 CHAPTER II: CIGS based solar cells...................................................................................16 II.1 Introduction...................................................................................................................... 17 II.2 CulnSe2 structure(CIS) .................................................................................................. 17 II.3 Pseudo-binary phase diagram of the Cu-In-Se system ..................................................... 20 II.4 Semiconductor Properties and Gap Adjustment ............................................................... 21 II.5 Electrical properties…........................................................................................................22 II.6 Optical properties of CulnSe2 ............................................................................................ 23 II.7 The structure of CIGS based solar cells............................................................................. 25 II.8 The layers constitute the CIGS based solar cell ................................................................ 25 II.8.1 The substrate........................................................................................................25 II.8.2 The Back Contact................................................................................................25 II.8.3 The CIGS absorber material.............................................................................. 26 II.8.4 The buffer layer.................................................................................................. 26 II.8.5 The window layer............................................................................................... 27 II.8.6 The front contact................................................................................................ 27 II.9 The performance of a CulnSe2based solar cell................................................................. 28 II.10 Features and disadvantages............................................................................................. 29 II.10.1 Features................................................................................................................. 29 II.10.2 Disadvantages........................................................................................................30 CHAPTER III: SCAPS software............................................................................................31 III.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 32 III.2 The basics ......................................................................................................................... 33 III.2.1 Run SCAPS........................................................................................................ 34 III.2.2 Define the problem............................................................................................. 34 III.2.3 Define the working point.................................................................................... 34 III.2.4 Select the measurement(s) to simulate................................................................35 III.2.5 Start the calculation(s)........................................................................................ 35 III.2.6 Display the simulated curves...............................................................................36 III.2.7 The I-V curves.................................................................................................... 36 III.3 Solar cell definition ......................................................................................................... 37 III.3.1 Edition a Solar cell structure.............................................................................. 38 III.3.2 Contacts.................................... ......................................................................... 38 III.3.3 Definitions of layers........................................................................................... 39 CHAPTER IV: Results and discussion..................................................................................43 IV.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 44 IV.2 The structure of the studied solar cell .............................................................................. 44 IV.3 The studied device parameter........................................................................................... 45 IV.4 Result and discussion ....................................................................................................... 45 IV.4.1 The effect of the relative permittivity on CIGS figures of merit............................. 45 IV.4.1.1 The influence of the relative permittivity of CdS layer........................... 45 IV.4.1.2 The influence of the relative permittivity of i − ZnO layer..................... 47 IV.4.1.3 The influence of the relative permittivity of CIGS absorber layer............51 GENERAL CONCLUSION......................................................................................................54 REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................55 ABSTRACT..............................................................................................................................59 |
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