ON THE PERFORMANCE LIMITS FOR MONO CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

In this study the solar cell parameters depending on semiconductor material’s electrical and physical properties were simulated and optimized with high accuracy and with a short simulation time. In order to obtain highly efficient solar cells in theory, later on for practical applications, Personal Computer One Dimensional (PC1D) software simulation program was used. The parameters were the thickness of emitter and absorber layers, type of absorber layer, doping profile, antireflective coating (ARC) materials and surface texturing. The results observed with the optimized parameters were compared and verified with the experimental results in the literature.