Enhanced absorption of solar cell made of photonic crystal by geometrical design

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• 作者：Asma Ouanoughi ; Abdesselam Hocini ; Djamel Khedrouche
• 关键词：finite ; difference time ; domain ; two ; dimensional (2D) photonic crystals ; solar cell
• 刊名：Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：93-98
• 全文大小：440 KB
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• 作者单位：Asma Ouanoughi (1)
  Abdesselam Hocini (1)
  Djamel Khedrouche (1)
  
  1. Laboratoire d’Analyse des Signaux et Systèmes, Department of Electronics, University of Mohamed Boudiaf of M’sila, BP.166, Route Ichebilia, M’sila, 28000, Algeria
  
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Electronic and Computer Engineering
  Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers
  Biomedical Engineering
  Chinese Library of Science
  
• 出版者：Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：2095-2767

文摘

In this paper, via numerical simulation we designed the geometry of solar cell made by one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals with two kinds of materiel (silicon (Si) and hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H)) in order to enhance its absorption. The absorption characteristics of light in the solar cell structures are simulated by using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The calculation results show that the enhancement of absorption in patterned structure is apparent comparing to the unpatterned one, which proves the ability of the structure to produce photonic crystal solar cell. We found solar cell geometries as a 2D photonic crystal enable to increase the absorption between 380 and 750 nm.