Amorphous diamondlike carbon films - a hard optical material for silicon solar cells

M. Alaluf; J. Appelbaum; L. Klibanov; D. Brinker; D. Scheiman; N. Croitoru

Amorphous diamondlike carbon films - a hard optical material for silicon solar cells

M. Alaluf^*, J. Appelbaum, L. Klibanov, D. Brinker, D. Scheiman, N. Croitoru

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Amorphous Diamondlike Carbon (a:DLC) films are suitable materials to be used as a protective layer and anti-reflecting coating for silicon solar cells. Microhardness tests show high hardness of about 4700kg/mm². Optical measurements, in the visible light, on silicon solar cell without anti-reflecting (AR) coating on which a:DLC was deposited as anti-reflecting coating show a significant reduction in reflection of the light of about 25 ÷ 45% as compared to the reflection from the solar cell before the deposition of the a:DLC film. The I-V characteristic of solar cells without anti-reflecting coating and with a:DLC as AR coating layer show an improvement in the short circuit current (from 107mA to 116mA) and in the efficiency of the cell by 1% (from 8% to 9%).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2208-2210
Number of pages	3
Journal	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Volume	2
State	Published - 1994
Event	Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. Part 2 (of 2) - Waikoloa, HI, USA Duration: 5 Dec 1994 → 9 Dec 1994

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