2016/02/05 by Ashrafalsadat S. Mirkamali, Mirkamali, Ashrafalsadat S., Khikmat Kh. Muminov +1
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #physics.ins-det #solar cell performance optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.01898
arxiv created 2016/02/05 · openalex publication_date 2016/02/05 · arxiv updated 2016/02/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we conduct numerical simulation of CdS/CIGS solar cells by use of the AMPS-1D software aiming to formulate the optimal design of the new multi-junction tandem solar cell providing its most efficient operation. We start with the numerical simulation of single-junction CdS/CIGS solar cells, which shows that its highest efficiency of 17.3% could be achieved by the thickness of CIGS p-layer of 200 nm. This result is in a good agreement with experimental data where the highest efficiency was 17.1% with the solar cell thickness of 1 micron. By use of the results of the numerical simulation of the single-junction solar cells we developed the design and conducted optimization of the new multi-junction tandem CdS/CIGS solar cell structure. Numerical simulation shows that the maximum efficiency of this solar cell is equal to 48.3%, which could be obtained with the thickness of the CIGS p-layer of 600 nm at a standard illumination of AM 1.5.