Multiscale experimental characterization of solar cell defects

Pavel Škarvada; Lubomír Škvarenina; Pavel Tománek; Dinara Sobola; Robert Macků; Jitka Brüstlová; Lubomír Grmela; Steve Smith

doi:10.1117/12.2259884

23 December 2016 Multiscale experimental characterization of solar cell defects

Pavel Škarvada, Lubomír Škvarenina, Pavel Tománek, Dinara Sobola, Robert Macků, Jitka Brüstlová, Lubomír Grmela, Steve Smith

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Proceedings Volume 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 101420U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259884
Event: 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2016, Jasna, Slovakia

Abstract

The search for alternative sources of renewable energy, including novel photovoltaics structures, is one of the principal tasks of 21th century development. In the field of photovoltaics there are three generations of solar cells of different structures going from monocrystalline silicon through thin-films to hybrid and organic cells, moreover using nanostructure details. Due to the diversity of these structures, their complex study requires the multiscale interpretations which common core includes an integrated approach bridging not only the length scales from macroscale to the atomistic, but also multispectral investigation under different working temperatures. The multiscale study is generally applied to theoretical aspects, but is also applied to experimental characterization. We investigate multiscale aspects of electrical, optical and thermal properties of solar cells under illumination and in dark conditions when an external bias is applied. We present the results of a research of the micron and sub-micron defects in a crystalline solar cell structure utilizing scanning probe microscopy and electric noise measurement.

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Pavel Škarvada, Lubomír Škvarenina, Pavel Tománek, Dinara Sobola, Robert Macků, Jitka Brüstlová, Lubomír Grmela, and Steve Smith "Multiscale experimental characterization of solar cell defects", Proc. SPIE 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 101420U (23 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259884

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