Solar cell short-circuit current dependence on the angle of the incident radiation

Arja Heinämäki; G. Guekos

doi:10.1016/0379-6787(87)90022-6

Solar cell short-circuit current dependence on the angle of the incident radiation

Arja Heinämäki, G. Guekos

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Abstract

The dependence of the photocurrent of n+p crystalline and pin amorphous silicon cells on the angle of incident radiation has been investigated theoretically and experimentally.
It is found that for angles larger than about 30° from the normal to the surface the photocurrent is significantly smaller than expected from the cosine law.
It is shown that the deviation is mainly due to increased reflection losses, the contribution from the increase in the effective junction depth being small.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	65-73
Journal	Solar Cells
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-6787(87)90022-6
Publication status	Published - 1987
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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