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DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF INDIUM GALLIUM NITRIDE
MULTIJUNCTION TANDEM SOLAR CELLS
Nargis Akter
Lecturer, Department of CSE, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Abstract
As our global energy expenditure increases exponentially, it is apparent that renewable energy solution must be utilized. Solar PV
technology is the best way to utilize the unlimited solar energy. The InGaN is a recently developed novel solar cell material for its
promising tunable band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV for the realization of high efficiency tandem solar cells in space and terrestrial
applications. In this work, various numerical simulations were performed using Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structure
(AMPS) simulator to explore the possibility of higher efficiency of InGaN based solar cells. At these aim three different types of
InGaN based solar cells (single junction, double junction and triple junction) were designed and optimized. Numerical simulations
were done with different band gap of InGaN material and found that maximum efficiency occurs around 1.2 eV to 1.5 eV, it has been
optimized at 1.34 eV for (single junction solar cell) with maximum conversion efficiency of 25.02%. The single junction solar cell
were simulated and optimized for optimum thickness of p-layer and n-layer. Doping concentration and back contact material of the
designed cells were investigated and found that 1×1016
cm-3
of doping concentration for both p and n type material and Nical as back
contact with ΦbL of 1.3 eV are best fitted for higher conversion efficiency. From tunable band gap of InxGa1-xN material, selection has
been done at 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV for the top, middle and bottom cells respectively for the tandem triple junction and double
junction (1.61 eV, 1.21 eV) solar cells. The best conversion efficiency of the single junction, double junction and triple junction solar
cells are 25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34% respectively. Effect of tunnel junction for the tandem cells also investigated and found that
required thickness for tunnel junction is around 25 nm with doping concentration, NA and ND of 1×1019
and 1×1016
respectively were
found in this analysis. Finally, the temperature coefficient (TC) of the above proposed cells were simulated to investigate the thermal
stability of the proposed cells. It has been found that the TC of InGaN cells is about -0.04%/°C, which indicate the higher stability of
the proposed cells.
Keywords: Solar electricity, Solar cells, InGaN, Tandem, Ultra thin film, AMPS, Conversion Efficiency, Thermal stability.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) thin film solar cell has
recently been recognized as a leading photovoltaic candidate
for the possibilities of high conversion efficiency. To attain
the expected breakthrough of photovoltaic technology as a
competitive energy source against fossil fuels, the cell higher
conversion efficiency, low cost and stability are the main
factors. The InGaN material has attractive tunable band gap of
0.7 eV to 3.42 eV and high optical absorption coefficient over
105
/cm which indicates the better absorption of the Sun
spectrum [1, 2]. It is a very potential material for ultra thin
solar cells in space application. Its band gap can be tuned by
varying the amount of Indium in the alloy. The possibility to
perform band gap engineering with InGaN over a range that
provides a good spectral match to sunlight makes InGaN
suitable for solar photovoltaic cells. It is possible to grow
multiple layers with different band gap of InGaN as the
material is relatively insensitive to defects introduced by a
lattice mismatch between the layers [3]. A two-layer
multijunction cell with band gaps of 1.1 eV and 1.7 eV can
attain a theoretical 50% maximum efficiency, by depositing
multiple layers tuned to a wide range of band gaps an
efficiency up to 70% is theoretically expected [3].
The layers of InGaN solar cell can be deposited using the cost
effective techniques, such as Metal Organic Chemical Vapor
Deposition (MOCVD), Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
(MOVPE), and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) [4]. In 2007
Jani et al. have reported GaN/InGaN solar cell [5]. Xiaobin
Zhang et al. published 20.284% conversion efficiency of
InGaN single junction solar cell in 2007 [6]. In 2008 same
group published 24.95% conversion efficiency of single
junction InGaN solar cell and the conversion efficiency of
InGaN tandem solar cells for double junction and triple
junction were 34.34% and 41.72% respectively [7]. Recently
in 2011, S. Ben Machiche has achieved efficiency of 24.88%
for single junction InGaN solar cell and efficiency of 34.34%
and 37.15% for double junction and triple junction tandem
solar cell respectively [8]. The III-V group materials are
widely used for tandem solar cells for the space application,
such as InGaP/GaAs double junction and InGaP/GaAs/Ge
triple junction cells were developed in 2009. Triple junction
structure of GaInP/GaAs/Ge shown efficiency of 41.6% [9]
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but it should be noted that the 0.66 eV indirect band gap
energy of Ge is not optimal as the material for the bottom sub
cell in a triple junction cell. Recently, in 2012 a new structure
of GaInP/GaAs/GaInNAs shows efficiency of 44%, which is
the highest efficiency up to now [10]. But the problem of this
structure is more complex quardinary alloy system of the cell
and the toxicity as well as the cost of Arsenide (As) material is
the biggest barrier of these material system. There are scopes
to reduce the thickness to save materials and to increase the
conversion efficiency by improving short circuit current
density (Jsc), open circuit voltage (Voc) and fill factor (FF)
with different proportion of x in InxGa1-xN material system
with different doping concentration. All the above ideas were
modeled in this work and numerical analysis was done by
using AMPS 1D simulator to achieve the best InGaN single
junction solar cell for higher efficiency and stability. The
proposed cell might be a basic component of tandem solar
cells. The conversion efficiency has been found in this
research work were 25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34%
respectively for the proposed InGaN single junction, double
junction and triple junction tandem solar cell with the
temperature coefficient (TC) of -0.04%/ºC.
2. DESIGN AND SIMULATION
One-dimensional AMPS numerical simulation of InGaN thin-
film solar cells is used in this work. It is a powerful tool to
build a reasonable physical model to test the viability and
numerical simulations can help to predict any changes in cell
performance resulting from the modified reasonable
parameters [11]. Moreover, difficult experimental tasks can
sometimes be by-passed with numerical modeling and
simulations. The operation of semiconductor devices can be
described by a set of basic equations. These equations are
coupled with partial differential equations, for which it is often
not possible to find general analytical solutions. These
equations can be transformed into a set of nonlinear algebraic
equations, which can be solved numerically with a computer.
Poisson’s equation relates the electric field E to the charge
density. In one dimension space, Poisson’s equation is given
by [11]:
ε
ρ
=
dx
dE
(1)
Where, ε is the permittivity. Since the electric field E can be
defined as –dΨ/dx, where Ψ is the electrostatic potential and
the charge density ρ can be expressed by the sum of free
electron n, free hole p, ionized donor doping ND
+
, ionized
acceptor doping NA
−
, trapped electron nt and trapped hole pt,
Poisson’s equation can be written as [11]:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )( ))()( xtxtAD npNxNxnxpq
dx
d
x
dx
d
−+−+−=




 Ψ
− −+
ε (2)
Due to complex and very costly fabrication methods of InGaN
thin film solar cells, the need for numerical modeling method
is higher for InGaN solar cells.
Fig -1: Single junction structure
Fig. 1 illustrates the proposed structure of InGaN based single
junction structure and Fig. 2 illustrates the double junction and
triple junction tandem solar cells structure. In the proposed
InxGa1-xN solar cell structure, a p-type layer which acts as
absorber layer and an n-type layer are connected to form a
single junction solar cell. A transparent and conducting oxide
(TCO) about 200 nm is stagged which acts as the front contact
of the cell, generally deposited on high quality glass substrate.
Sun light strike at the p-type material over which a transparent
conductor is connected as front contact and in the back surface
a metal conductor is connected as back contact material as it
should form an ohmic contact to the n-InGaN. TCO and back
contact are used to achieve thin InGaN layer. The doping
concentration (5×1017
cm3
) used in the earlier study has been
changed to (1×1016
cm3
) more effective and today’s practically
achievable values for higher efficiency. Higher watt function
metals such as Au/Ni/Pt need to be used for back contact as
InGaN has high electron affinity. In this design back contact
material Nical (Ni) has used with back contact barrier height
of 1.3 eV. In this work, Analysis of Microelectronic and
Photonic Structures (AMPS-1D) has been used to investigate
the cell performance with InxGa1-xN.
(a) Double junction (b) Triple junction
Fig -2: Tandem Structure
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For proper design of InGaN based solar cell, first one have to
analyze the equation of material main parameters such as band
gap, electron affinity, optical property, carrier mobility,
density of states, permittivity, absorption coefficient, electric
field distribution and stability at higher operating temperature
etc. At room temperature, band gap (eV) of the InxGa1-xN
material is given by the relation [12]:
( ) ( ) ( )xxxxxEg −−−+= 143.114.37.0 (3)
Where x is the proportion of In content in InxGa1-xN. The band
gap of InN is 0.7 eV and the band gap of GaN is 3.4 eV. The
1.43 eV is the best fitted bowing parameter. From the equation
(3), band gap of InxGa1-xN were calculated and presented in
the plotted in Fig. 3.
Fig -3: Band gap variation with the (x) proportion of In in
InxGa1-xN material.
From the Fig 3, it is clear that InGaN has promisisng tunable
band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV.
The electron affinity of InGaN is expressed by the relation
given below [13]:
( )gE−+= 4.37.01.4χ (4)
Where Eg is the band gap of the InxGa1-xN material from
equation (3).
The effective density of states in the conduction band: [13]
( )xxNc −+= 18.19.0 (5)
The absorption coefficient α(λ) is related to the particular
wavelength and band gap of the InxGa1-xN material [14].
( ) gE−×=
λ
λα
24.1
102.2 5
(6)
The effective density of states in the valence band [15]:
( )xxNv −+= 18.13.5 (7)
The relative permittivity, [13]:
( )xr −+= 14.106.14ε (8)
The above formulae are obtained from the linear fitting of the
corresponding parameters of InN and GaN [16]. For designing
of InGaN solar cell all parameters are calculated here and
shown in the Fig. 4. From these values, several combinations
of band gap have been tried and selection was made from best
performance of the cells.
Fig -4: Device parameter and Band gap of InxGa1-xN
InGaN is a material with high electron affinity and when the
band gap decreased electron affinity increased and relative
permittivity of InGaN also increased. From Fig. 4 it is clear
that the density of state at conduction band and valence band
shows opposite behavior with the band gap. Effective density
of state at conduction band decreased with decreased band gap
while effective density of state at valence band increased.
Table 1 shows all the required parameters for the simulation of
single junction, double junction and triple junction tandem
solar cel
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Table -1: Parameters for simulation
3. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS
One of the challenging issues of solar cells is related to the
lesser material usage. The monocrystalline InGaN has high
absorption coefficient over 105
/cm, which means that all the
potential photons of sunlight with energy greater than the band
gap can be absorbed within few μm thin InGaN absorber
layer. Moreover, InxGa1-xN has direct band gap of 0.7 eV to
3.4 eV, to utilize whole solar spectrum. In my previous
research it was published that absorber layer thickness of 0.5
µm is enough to create a best performance cell with 0.1 µm n
layer at 1.34 eV [17]. In another work of triple junction
tandem solar cell, bandgap selection has been made for the top
cell, middle cell and bottom cell and they are 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV
and 1.21 eV[18].
In this research it can be seen from the Fig. 5, electric field
distribution of the cell that the field diminishes before 0.5 µm
of p-InGaN thickness. The charge depletion extends
approximately 0.5 microns into the p-InGaN layer. If the
thickness of the p-InGaN layer is restricted to smaller values
(<0.5 µm), then the InGaN layer is said to be ‘fully depleted’.
Type x
Eg
(eV)
εr χ (eV)
Nc 1018
cm-3
Nv 1019
cm-3 NA cm-3 ND
cm-3 μn μn D μm
p 0.64 1.34 13.09 5.54 1.40 4.04 1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n 0.64 1.34 13.09 5.54 1.40 4.04 0 1016
955 169.8 0.1
p1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 1×1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 1×1016
955 169.8 0.1
n1+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 3×1017
433 169.8 0.03
p1+ 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1019
0 73.53 3.15 0.02
p2 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n2 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 0 1×1016
955 169.8 0.1
p1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 1×1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 1×1016
955 169.8 0.1
n1+ 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 3×1017
433 86.5 0.03
p1+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 1×1019
0 73.53 3.15 0.02
p2 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 1×1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n2 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 1×1016
955 169.8 0.1
n2+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 3×1017
433 86.5 0.03
p2+ 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1019
0 73.53 3.15 0.02
p3 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1016
0 955 169.8 0.5
n3 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 0 1×1016
955 169.8 0.1
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Fig-5: The electric field distribution in of InGaN absorber
layer.
The carrier generation rate of 0.5 µm thick InGaN cells are
calculated and found to be in the order of 5×1020
cm-3
s-1
in the
vicinity of InGaN junction as shown in Fig. 6. From the
figure the carrier generation drastically decreases within just
0.5 μm of InGaN absorber layer thickness. So, 0.5 μm
absorber layer has been selected for the different cell with o.1
μm n layer. single junction solar cell of InGaN. Previous result
of single junction cell of this material are 24.95% and 24.88%.
Absober layer thickness was selected at 0.5 μm for the top and
bottom cells. This selectction has been made from rigorus
simulation process by AMPS. The efficiency of the proposed
double junction cell is 35.45%, which is higher than
previously reported double junction cell of InGaN material.
The reputed result are 34.43%. For the triple junction cell,
selected bangaps are 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV for top,
middle and bottom cell respectively.
Thickness of absorber layers are 0.5 μm . For triple junction
cell efficiency is 42.34% that is also the highest for InGaN
solar cell ever reported. The reputed results for triple junction
solar cells are 41.72% and 37.15%.
Fig-6: The calculated carrier generation rate in the InGaN
solar cell
From this analysis, it can be concluded that 0.5 μm thickness
of the absorber layer would be better for high efficient cell.
Band gap selection has been made from the numerical
simulation for different ratio of Indium. From the result of this
simulation, optimized band gap were selected 1.61 eV, 1.44
eV and 1.21 eV for the tandem top, middle and bottom cell
respectively. For the double junction cell, band gap of 1.61 eV
and 1.21 eV were selected for top and bottom cell
respectively. And for the single junction solar cell, selected
band gap is 1.34 eV, absorber layer thickness of the selected
cell is 0.5 μm, which is 200 times lower than conventional
solar cells. For the single junction solar cell the efficiency of
designed cell is 25.019%, Jsc=30.883 mA/cm2
, FF=0.876 and
Voc=0.925V. This efficiency is highest for a reputed
Effect of tunnel junction has been analyzed and thickness of
the tunnel junction layer was optimized for the tandem cells
Fig-7: Effect of tunnel junction n layer thickness on tandem
Fig-8: Effect of tunnel junction p layer thickness on tandem
From the proposed cells of single, double and triple junction,
it is observed that the efficiency is increased in the tandem
cells than single junction cell. In tandem cells, different cells
with diffrent band gap are connected by tunnel junction to
form a complete workable cell. The band gaps of the tandem
cells are selected in such a way that it could absorb the
maximum effective solar flux. The Jsc and Voc are very
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important in tandem cell design. The Jsc follow the minimum
value of the connected cells in series and Voc follow the
higher value of the connected cell. In this work, three types of
solar cells have been designed and found that the efficiency is
25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34% for single, double and triple
junction respectively. The Jsc is 30.883 mA/cm2
, 33.984
mA/cm2
and 36.15 mA/cm with Voc is 0.925V, 1.165V and
1.33V; FF is 0.876, 0.895 and 0.88 for the single junction,
double junction and triple junction respectively which are
shown in Table 2 for clear view.
Table 2: Comparison of Single, double and triple junction
InGaN solar cells
Three different cell efficiency curve from AMPS simulation
are shown in Fig. 9.
Fig-9: I-V curve of single, double and triple junction cells
An investigation has been done to understand the effect of
higher operating temperature on the proposed cell efficiency
with temperature ranged from 25 °C to 100 °C. The AMPS
simulation results are shown in Fig. 10. It is evident from the
Fig. 10 that the conversion efficiency linearly decreases with
operating temperature at a temperature coefficient (TC) of -
04%/°C, which also indicate the degree of stability of the cell
at higher operating temperature or in stressed conditions.
For single junction, double junction and triple junction cell TC
is -0.04%/°C. From the analysis of temperature dependency,
cell stability is much better than other conventional solar cell.
Therefore, the designed cell is more stable at higher operating
temperature.
Fig-10: Effect of operating temperature on the tandem cell
performance
CONCLUSIONS
Utilization of the enormous energy of the Sun by converting it
into electricity is an emerging alternative way to fulfill the
energy demand of the mankind. The PV solar cells are very
potential which can be operate continuously without any
maintenance, non-polluting and has the potentiality to fulfill
the shared dream of humanity; clean and affordable energy
from the sun, for all in everywhere. The number of materials
that can be used for solar cell production is large. Recent
studies suggest that thin films will dominate the worldwide
terrestrial market in the near future, since they should be
capable of reaching a lower price figure (in $/Watt). Among
thin film InGaN is the favorable choice because it has
important advantages as a material for solar cells, namely
optimum tunable direct energy gap, higher absorption
coefficient over 105
/cm3
and its ability to keep good electronic
properties under different temperature. Because of the tunable
band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV and the excellent semiconductor
properties of InGaN, it is a promising material for single
junction as well as tandem solar cells.
Numerical simulation of solar cell is an important way to
predict the effect on cell performance and to test the viability
of the proposed structure. A high efficiency InGaN single
junction solar cell was designed and numerically optimized in
this work with cell efficiency of 25.02%. The double junction
and triple junction InGaN tandem solar cells were designed
and numerically optimized in this work with the conversion
efficiency of 35.45% and 42.34%. These simulated results are
higher than the previously published results of InGaN solar
cells. The thickness of the cells is reduced than other
conventional solar cells and it will reduce the fabrication cost
effectively. Effect of temperature of the proposed cells were
investigated and found that temperature coefficient of the
designed cells is -0.04%/°C, which indicate the thermal
stability of the cell in stressed condition to some extent.
Thermal stability of the proposed cells are in generally is
higher than other conventional solar cell. This work has shown
Solar
cell
Jsc
(mA/cm2
)
Voc
(V)
FF
Efficiency
(%)
Single
Junction
30.883 0.925 0.876 25.02%
Double
Junction
33.984 1.165 0.895 35.45%
Triple
Junction
36.15 1.33 0.88 42.34%
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an important way for the design and fabrication of single
junction and tandem solar cells with InGaN material. Thus
InGaN based tandem solar cells were designed and analyzed
numerically. The designed cells of this work need to be
fabricated for further investigation. Much more, research need
to be done on this material for its design process and the
fabrication techniques.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported partially by the post graduate
research grant of the Chittagong University of Engineering &
Technology (CUET). I acknowledge to the above-mentioned
university.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Nargis Akter, M.Sc and B.Sc in EEE from
Chittagong University of Engineering and
Technology (CUET). Lecturer in theDepartment
of CSE in the International Islamic University
Chittagong, Bangladesh

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Design and simulation of indium gallium nitride

  • 1. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 315 DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF INDIUM GALLIUM NITRIDE MULTIJUNCTION TANDEM SOLAR CELLS Nargis Akter Lecturer, Department of CSE, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh Abstract As our global energy expenditure increases exponentially, it is apparent that renewable energy solution must be utilized. Solar PV technology is the best way to utilize the unlimited solar energy. The InGaN is a recently developed novel solar cell material for its promising tunable band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV for the realization of high efficiency tandem solar cells in space and terrestrial applications. In this work, various numerical simulations were performed using Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structure (AMPS) simulator to explore the possibility of higher efficiency of InGaN based solar cells. At these aim three different types of InGaN based solar cells (single junction, double junction and triple junction) were designed and optimized. Numerical simulations were done with different band gap of InGaN material and found that maximum efficiency occurs around 1.2 eV to 1.5 eV, it has been optimized at 1.34 eV for (single junction solar cell) with maximum conversion efficiency of 25.02%. The single junction solar cell were simulated and optimized for optimum thickness of p-layer and n-layer. Doping concentration and back contact material of the designed cells were investigated and found that 1×1016 cm-3 of doping concentration for both p and n type material and Nical as back contact with ΦbL of 1.3 eV are best fitted for higher conversion efficiency. From tunable band gap of InxGa1-xN material, selection has been done at 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV for the top, middle and bottom cells respectively for the tandem triple junction and double junction (1.61 eV, 1.21 eV) solar cells. The best conversion efficiency of the single junction, double junction and triple junction solar cells are 25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34% respectively. Effect of tunnel junction for the tandem cells also investigated and found that required thickness for tunnel junction is around 25 nm with doping concentration, NA and ND of 1×1019 and 1×1016 respectively were found in this analysis. Finally, the temperature coefficient (TC) of the above proposed cells were simulated to investigate the thermal stability of the proposed cells. It has been found that the TC of InGaN cells is about -0.04%/°C, which indicate the higher stability of the proposed cells. Keywords: Solar electricity, Solar cells, InGaN, Tandem, Ultra thin film, AMPS, Conversion Efficiency, Thermal stability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) thin film solar cell has recently been recognized as a leading photovoltaic candidate for the possibilities of high conversion efficiency. To attain the expected breakthrough of photovoltaic technology as a competitive energy source against fossil fuels, the cell higher conversion efficiency, low cost and stability are the main factors. The InGaN material has attractive tunable band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.42 eV and high optical absorption coefficient over 105 /cm which indicates the better absorption of the Sun spectrum [1, 2]. It is a very potential material for ultra thin solar cells in space application. Its band gap can be tuned by varying the amount of Indium in the alloy. The possibility to perform band gap engineering with InGaN over a range that provides a good spectral match to sunlight makes InGaN suitable for solar photovoltaic cells. It is possible to grow multiple layers with different band gap of InGaN as the material is relatively insensitive to defects introduced by a lattice mismatch between the layers [3]. A two-layer multijunction cell with band gaps of 1.1 eV and 1.7 eV can attain a theoretical 50% maximum efficiency, by depositing multiple layers tuned to a wide range of band gaps an efficiency up to 70% is theoretically expected [3]. The layers of InGaN solar cell can be deposited using the cost effective techniques, such as Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE), and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) [4]. In 2007 Jani et al. have reported GaN/InGaN solar cell [5]. Xiaobin Zhang et al. published 20.284% conversion efficiency of InGaN single junction solar cell in 2007 [6]. In 2008 same group published 24.95% conversion efficiency of single junction InGaN solar cell and the conversion efficiency of InGaN tandem solar cells for double junction and triple junction were 34.34% and 41.72% respectively [7]. Recently in 2011, S. Ben Machiche has achieved efficiency of 24.88% for single junction InGaN solar cell and efficiency of 34.34% and 37.15% for double junction and triple junction tandem solar cell respectively [8]. The III-V group materials are widely used for tandem solar cells for the space application, such as InGaP/GaAs double junction and InGaP/GaAs/Ge triple junction cells were developed in 2009. Triple junction structure of GaInP/GaAs/Ge shown efficiency of 41.6% [9]
  • 2. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 316 but it should be noted that the 0.66 eV indirect band gap energy of Ge is not optimal as the material for the bottom sub cell in a triple junction cell. Recently, in 2012 a new structure of GaInP/GaAs/GaInNAs shows efficiency of 44%, which is the highest efficiency up to now [10]. But the problem of this structure is more complex quardinary alloy system of the cell and the toxicity as well as the cost of Arsenide (As) material is the biggest barrier of these material system. There are scopes to reduce the thickness to save materials and to increase the conversion efficiency by improving short circuit current density (Jsc), open circuit voltage (Voc) and fill factor (FF) with different proportion of x in InxGa1-xN material system with different doping concentration. All the above ideas were modeled in this work and numerical analysis was done by using AMPS 1D simulator to achieve the best InGaN single junction solar cell for higher efficiency and stability. The proposed cell might be a basic component of tandem solar cells. The conversion efficiency has been found in this research work were 25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34% respectively for the proposed InGaN single junction, double junction and triple junction tandem solar cell with the temperature coefficient (TC) of -0.04%/ºC. 2. DESIGN AND SIMULATION One-dimensional AMPS numerical simulation of InGaN thin- film solar cells is used in this work. It is a powerful tool to build a reasonable physical model to test the viability and numerical simulations can help to predict any changes in cell performance resulting from the modified reasonable parameters [11]. Moreover, difficult experimental tasks can sometimes be by-passed with numerical modeling and simulations. The operation of semiconductor devices can be described by a set of basic equations. These equations are coupled with partial differential equations, for which it is often not possible to find general analytical solutions. These equations can be transformed into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations, which can be solved numerically with a computer. Poisson’s equation relates the electric field E to the charge density. In one dimension space, Poisson’s equation is given by [11]: ε ρ = dx dE (1) Where, ε is the permittivity. Since the electric field E can be defined as –dΨ/dx, where Ψ is the electrostatic potential and the charge density ρ can be expressed by the sum of free electron n, free hole p, ionized donor doping ND + , ionized acceptor doping NA − , trapped electron nt and trapped hole pt, Poisson’s equation can be written as [11]: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )( ))()( xtxtAD npNxNxnxpq dx d x dx d −+−+−=      Ψ − −+ ε (2) Due to complex and very costly fabrication methods of InGaN thin film solar cells, the need for numerical modeling method is higher for InGaN solar cells. Fig -1: Single junction structure Fig. 1 illustrates the proposed structure of InGaN based single junction structure and Fig. 2 illustrates the double junction and triple junction tandem solar cells structure. In the proposed InxGa1-xN solar cell structure, a p-type layer which acts as absorber layer and an n-type layer are connected to form a single junction solar cell. A transparent and conducting oxide (TCO) about 200 nm is stagged which acts as the front contact of the cell, generally deposited on high quality glass substrate. Sun light strike at the p-type material over which a transparent conductor is connected as front contact and in the back surface a metal conductor is connected as back contact material as it should form an ohmic contact to the n-InGaN. TCO and back contact are used to achieve thin InGaN layer. The doping concentration (5×1017 cm3 ) used in the earlier study has been changed to (1×1016 cm3 ) more effective and today’s practically achievable values for higher efficiency. Higher watt function metals such as Au/Ni/Pt need to be used for back contact as InGaN has high electron affinity. In this design back contact material Nical (Ni) has used with back contact barrier height of 1.3 eV. In this work, Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structures (AMPS-1D) has been used to investigate the cell performance with InxGa1-xN. (a) Double junction (b) Triple junction Fig -2: Tandem Structure
  • 3. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 317 For proper design of InGaN based solar cell, first one have to analyze the equation of material main parameters such as band gap, electron affinity, optical property, carrier mobility, density of states, permittivity, absorption coefficient, electric field distribution and stability at higher operating temperature etc. At room temperature, band gap (eV) of the InxGa1-xN material is given by the relation [12]: ( ) ( ) ( )xxxxxEg −−−+= 143.114.37.0 (3) Where x is the proportion of In content in InxGa1-xN. The band gap of InN is 0.7 eV and the band gap of GaN is 3.4 eV. The 1.43 eV is the best fitted bowing parameter. From the equation (3), band gap of InxGa1-xN were calculated and presented in the plotted in Fig. 3. Fig -3: Band gap variation with the (x) proportion of In in InxGa1-xN material. From the Fig 3, it is clear that InGaN has promisisng tunable band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV. The electron affinity of InGaN is expressed by the relation given below [13]: ( )gE−+= 4.37.01.4χ (4) Where Eg is the band gap of the InxGa1-xN material from equation (3). The effective density of states in the conduction band: [13] ( )xxNc −+= 18.19.0 (5) The absorption coefficient α(λ) is related to the particular wavelength and band gap of the InxGa1-xN material [14]. ( ) gE−×= λ λα 24.1 102.2 5 (6) The effective density of states in the valence band [15]: ( )xxNv −+= 18.13.5 (7) The relative permittivity, [13]: ( )xr −+= 14.106.14ε (8) The above formulae are obtained from the linear fitting of the corresponding parameters of InN and GaN [16]. For designing of InGaN solar cell all parameters are calculated here and shown in the Fig. 4. From these values, several combinations of band gap have been tried and selection was made from best performance of the cells. Fig -4: Device parameter and Band gap of InxGa1-xN InGaN is a material with high electron affinity and when the band gap decreased electron affinity increased and relative permittivity of InGaN also increased. From Fig. 4 it is clear that the density of state at conduction band and valence band shows opposite behavior with the band gap. Effective density of state at conduction band decreased with decreased band gap while effective density of state at valence band increased. Table 1 shows all the required parameters for the simulation of single junction, double junction and triple junction tandem solar cel
  • 4. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 318 Table -1: Parameters for simulation 3. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS One of the challenging issues of solar cells is related to the lesser material usage. The monocrystalline InGaN has high absorption coefficient over 105 /cm, which means that all the potential photons of sunlight with energy greater than the band gap can be absorbed within few μm thin InGaN absorber layer. Moreover, InxGa1-xN has direct band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV, to utilize whole solar spectrum. In my previous research it was published that absorber layer thickness of 0.5 µm is enough to create a best performance cell with 0.1 µm n layer at 1.34 eV [17]. In another work of triple junction tandem solar cell, bandgap selection has been made for the top cell, middle cell and bottom cell and they are 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV[18]. In this research it can be seen from the Fig. 5, electric field distribution of the cell that the field diminishes before 0.5 µm of p-InGaN thickness. The charge depletion extends approximately 0.5 microns into the p-InGaN layer. If the thickness of the p-InGaN layer is restricted to smaller values (<0.5 µm), then the InGaN layer is said to be ‘fully depleted’. Type x Eg (eV) εr χ (eV) Nc 1018 cm-3 Nv 1019 cm-3 NA cm-3 ND cm-3 μn μn D μm p 0.64 1.34 13.09 5.54 1.40 4.04 1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n 0.64 1.34 13.09 5.54 1.40 4.04 0 1016 955 169.8 0.1 p1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 1×1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 1×1016 955 169.8 0.1 n1+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 3×1017 433 169.8 0.03 p1+ 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1019 0 73.53 3.15 0.02 p2 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n2 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 0 1×1016 955 169.8 0.1 p1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 1×1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n1 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 1×1016 955 169.8 0.1 n1+ 0.53 1.61 12.63 5.35 1.56 3.66 0 3×1017 433 86.5 0.03 p1+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 1×1019 0 73.53 3.15 0.02 p2 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 1×1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n2 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 1×1016 955 169.8 0.1 n2+ 0.6 1.44 12.92 5.47 1.46 3.90 0 3×1017 433 86.5 0.03 p2+ 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1019 0 73.53 3.15 0.02 p3 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 1×1016 0 955 169.8 0.5 n3 0.7 1.21 13.34 5.63 1.32 4.25 0 1×1016 955 169.8 0.1
  • 5. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 319 Fig-5: The electric field distribution in of InGaN absorber layer. The carrier generation rate of 0.5 µm thick InGaN cells are calculated and found to be in the order of 5×1020 cm-3 s-1 in the vicinity of InGaN junction as shown in Fig. 6. From the figure the carrier generation drastically decreases within just 0.5 μm of InGaN absorber layer thickness. So, 0.5 μm absorber layer has been selected for the different cell with o.1 μm n layer. single junction solar cell of InGaN. Previous result of single junction cell of this material are 24.95% and 24.88%. Absober layer thickness was selected at 0.5 μm for the top and bottom cells. This selectction has been made from rigorus simulation process by AMPS. The efficiency of the proposed double junction cell is 35.45%, which is higher than previously reported double junction cell of InGaN material. The reputed result are 34.43%. For the triple junction cell, selected bangaps are 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV for top, middle and bottom cell respectively. Thickness of absorber layers are 0.5 μm . For triple junction cell efficiency is 42.34% that is also the highest for InGaN solar cell ever reported. The reputed results for triple junction solar cells are 41.72% and 37.15%. Fig-6: The calculated carrier generation rate in the InGaN solar cell From this analysis, it can be concluded that 0.5 μm thickness of the absorber layer would be better for high efficient cell. Band gap selection has been made from the numerical simulation for different ratio of Indium. From the result of this simulation, optimized band gap were selected 1.61 eV, 1.44 eV and 1.21 eV for the tandem top, middle and bottom cell respectively. For the double junction cell, band gap of 1.61 eV and 1.21 eV were selected for top and bottom cell respectively. And for the single junction solar cell, selected band gap is 1.34 eV, absorber layer thickness of the selected cell is 0.5 μm, which is 200 times lower than conventional solar cells. For the single junction solar cell the efficiency of designed cell is 25.019%, Jsc=30.883 mA/cm2 , FF=0.876 and Voc=0.925V. This efficiency is highest for a reputed Effect of tunnel junction has been analyzed and thickness of the tunnel junction layer was optimized for the tandem cells Fig-7: Effect of tunnel junction n layer thickness on tandem Fig-8: Effect of tunnel junction p layer thickness on tandem From the proposed cells of single, double and triple junction, it is observed that the efficiency is increased in the tandem cells than single junction cell. In tandem cells, different cells with diffrent band gap are connected by tunnel junction to form a complete workable cell. The band gaps of the tandem cells are selected in such a way that it could absorb the maximum effective solar flux. The Jsc and Voc are very
  • 6. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 320 important in tandem cell design. The Jsc follow the minimum value of the connected cells in series and Voc follow the higher value of the connected cell. In this work, three types of solar cells have been designed and found that the efficiency is 25.019%, 35.45% and 42.34% for single, double and triple junction respectively. The Jsc is 30.883 mA/cm2 , 33.984 mA/cm2 and 36.15 mA/cm with Voc is 0.925V, 1.165V and 1.33V; FF is 0.876, 0.895 and 0.88 for the single junction, double junction and triple junction respectively which are shown in Table 2 for clear view. Table 2: Comparison of Single, double and triple junction InGaN solar cells Three different cell efficiency curve from AMPS simulation are shown in Fig. 9. Fig-9: I-V curve of single, double and triple junction cells An investigation has been done to understand the effect of higher operating temperature on the proposed cell efficiency with temperature ranged from 25 °C to 100 °C. The AMPS simulation results are shown in Fig. 10. It is evident from the Fig. 10 that the conversion efficiency linearly decreases with operating temperature at a temperature coefficient (TC) of - 04%/°C, which also indicate the degree of stability of the cell at higher operating temperature or in stressed conditions. For single junction, double junction and triple junction cell TC is -0.04%/°C. From the analysis of temperature dependency, cell stability is much better than other conventional solar cell. Therefore, the designed cell is more stable at higher operating temperature. Fig-10: Effect of operating temperature on the tandem cell performance CONCLUSIONS Utilization of the enormous energy of the Sun by converting it into electricity is an emerging alternative way to fulfill the energy demand of the mankind. The PV solar cells are very potential which can be operate continuously without any maintenance, non-polluting and has the potentiality to fulfill the shared dream of humanity; clean and affordable energy from the sun, for all in everywhere. The number of materials that can be used for solar cell production is large. Recent studies suggest that thin films will dominate the worldwide terrestrial market in the near future, since they should be capable of reaching a lower price figure (in $/Watt). Among thin film InGaN is the favorable choice because it has important advantages as a material for solar cells, namely optimum tunable direct energy gap, higher absorption coefficient over 105 /cm3 and its ability to keep good electronic properties under different temperature. Because of the tunable band gap of 0.7 eV to 3.4 eV and the excellent semiconductor properties of InGaN, it is a promising material for single junction as well as tandem solar cells. Numerical simulation of solar cell is an important way to predict the effect on cell performance and to test the viability of the proposed structure. A high efficiency InGaN single junction solar cell was designed and numerically optimized in this work with cell efficiency of 25.02%. The double junction and triple junction InGaN tandem solar cells were designed and numerically optimized in this work with the conversion efficiency of 35.45% and 42.34%. These simulated results are higher than the previously published results of InGaN solar cells. The thickness of the cells is reduced than other conventional solar cells and it will reduce the fabrication cost effectively. Effect of temperature of the proposed cells were investigated and found that temperature coefficient of the designed cells is -0.04%/°C, which indicate the thermal stability of the cell in stressed condition to some extent. Thermal stability of the proposed cells are in generally is higher than other conventional solar cell. This work has shown Solar cell Jsc (mA/cm2 ) Voc (V) FF Efficiency (%) Single Junction 30.883 0.925 0.876 25.02% Double Junction 33.984 1.165 0.895 35.45% Triple Junction 36.15 1.33 0.88 42.34%
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