2.626 fundamentals of photovoltaics · today’s topics • metallization. schottky and ohmic...
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2.626 Fundamentals of PhotovoltaicsFall 2008
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Charge Collection
Lecture 7 – 2.626
Tonio Buonassisi
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General Announcements
• Books: Order is made.• Quiz #1: In one week.
– Thursday = Review• Homework Assignment #1: Due today.
– Homework Assignment #2: Postponed until after exam.
• Class Projects• Concept Quiz
– First, a brief review of pn‐junctions…
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Syllabus Check
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Today’s Topics
• Metallization. Schottky and Ohmic contacts.• Advanced concepts for charge collection (hot carrier devices).
• Solar cell device architectures.• Common limitations of efficiency, short‐circuit current, fill factor, open‐circuit voltage (separate “efficiency” lecture).
• Lab component: Assessing the efficiency of a solar cell device, and performance loss mechanisms, simulating solar cell efficiencies using “commercial” software package PC1D. (postponed).
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Contacts…
• …extract carriers from device.• …prevent back‐diffusion of carriers into device.
• …are studied extensively in the semiconductor industry (several good review papers) for “common” semiconductors.
• …are semiconductor‐specific: While fundamentals generally apply universally, the devil is in the details, and each material system requires individual optimization.
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Contacts
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Contacts
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Contacts
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Types of Contacts
• Ohmic:– Electron barrier height ≤ 0.– Linear I‐V curve.
• Schottky: – Electron barrier height > 0.
– Exponential I‐V curve.
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Evaluating Metals for Contacts ‐ Theoretical
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Evaluating Metals for Contacts ‐ Practical
• Sources:– Reference books
– Review articles
– Scientific articles
– Trusted websites Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://www.siliconfareast.com/ohmic_table.htm
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Tunneling
Highly‐doped semiconductor
http://parts.jpl.nasa.gov/mmic/3‐II.PDF
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Used with permission.
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Tunneling
Highly‐doped semiconductor
Reverse‐bias semiconductor
http://parts.jpl.nasa.gov/mmic/3‐II.PDF
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Advanced Concepts
• Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs)– Simultaneous optimization of optical properties (transparency) and electrical properties (conductivity) a challenge!
• Ultra‐thin metal contacts
• Hot carriers
• Surface charge
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Hot Carrier Cells
Review of Loss Mechanisms
M. Green, Third generation photovoltaics: solar cells for 2020 and beyond. Physica E 14, 65 (2002).
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Hot Carrier Cells
Hot carriers lose energy due to inelastic collisions with lattice atoms (phonon creation).
If carriers can be extracted before inelastic collisions occur, then one could, in principle, create a very high‐efficiency device!
Energy
M. Green, Third generation photovoltaics: solar cells for 2020 and beyond. Physica E 14, 65 (2002).
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Surface Charge
CB
VB
Surface charge can pin the Fermi level, bending bands evenwithout an external contact.
In extreme cases, surface charge can result in differentapparent conductivity types of bulk and surface. E.g., InN.
2 dimensionalelectron gas (2DEG)
at surface!
2 dimensionalelectron gas (2DEG)
at surface!
P type bulk…P type bulk…
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Solar Cell Device Architectures: c‐Si (Innovative)
18L.L. Kazmerski, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 150 (2006) 105–135
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Solar Cell Device Architectures: Thin Films
Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 1 in Rech, B., and H. Wagner. “Potential of amorphous silicon for solar cells.” Applied Physics A 69 (1999): 155-167.
Courtesy EERE.
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Solar Cell Device Architectures: Thin Films
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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 1 in Klein, A., et al. “Interfaces in Thin Film Solar Cells.” Record of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2005): 205-210.
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Light
Solar Cell Device Architectures: Thin Films
Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 1 in Klein, A., et al. “Interfaces in Thin Film Solar Cells.” Record of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2005): 205-210.
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Solar Cell Device Architectures: Thin Films
Courtesy of M. Terheggen. Used with permission.
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Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cell
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‐ How to efficiency extract charge from a multiband material?
M.A. Green, Physica E 14 (2002) 65
Contact Challenges in Future Materials
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Next Class
• Review for Quiz #1.