PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CDS/CDTE

BASED THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL

KHANDOKAR MOSABBERUL ISLAM

ID: 1516024

SUPERVISED BY

DR. SUMON KUMAR DEBNATH

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (EEE)

December 2019, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur

 Background
Performance Analysis of CdS/CdTe based
Proposed Worksolar cell
Thin-film
Performance Evaluation

Conclusion and Future work

Outline
OUTLINE

Background
Proposed Work
Performance Evaluation
Conclusion and Future work
OUTLINE

Background
Proposed Work
Performance Evaluation
 Conclusion and Future work
 BACKGROUND

• Solar cell technology is pollution free.

• CdTe is a direct band gap thin film compound semiconductor
• CdTe is cost efficient and used in multi –kilowatt systems.
• Efficient CdS/CdTe solar cell.
 BACKGROUND

• Previously, we studied a Simulation of Ultra-Thin CdS-CdTe solar cell. [1]

• In previous, CdTe absorber layer thickness fixed at 1000 nm.

S Banik, M Shekh, S Kabir. ”Design and Simulation of Ultra-Thin CdS-CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cell” (Doctoral dissertation, East West
University).Available at: http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1308
 CONTRIBUTION

• we change cell parameters which increase cell performance than previous work.
• We reduce absorber layer thickness, 200nm without decreasing cell efficiency.
OUTLINE

Background
Proposed Work
Performance Evaluation
 Conclusion and Future work
 PROPOSED WORK

CdS/CdTe Solar Cell designed with 800nm CdTe absorber layer.

OUTLINE

Background
Proposed Work
Performance Evaluation
 Conclusion and Future work
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Methodology
Result and Discussion
METHODOLOGY

 Simulation is performed by AMPS-1D software.

 AMPS-1D solves three equation to carry out result:
 The poison equation.
 The electron continuity equation.
 The hole continuity equation.
 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
 Efficiency and Short circuit current current density curve for
CdTe
densitylayer.
curve for CdS layer.
 CdS layer thickness vs cell performance table

Outline
Conclusion
Proposed Performance
Background and Future
Work Evaluation
work
RESULT AND DISCUSSION

25.212(mA/c
m3) at 50nm
thickness
 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

 CdTe layer thickness vs cell performance table

Thickness Jsc(mA/cm2) Efficiency (%) FF VOC(Volts)
800 25.212 26.942 89.7 -1.19
1000 25.451 27.203 89.7 -1.19
1200 25.607 27.371 89.7 -1.19
1400 25.721 27.494 89.7 -1.19
1600 25.813 27.593 89.7 -1.19
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
RESULT AND DISCUSSION

 Temperature effect on efficiency and open circuit voltage

26.942% at 1.19 (volts)
298(K) at 298(K)

24.583% at
350(K)
1.11(volts) at
350(K)
OUTLINE

Background
Proposed work
Performance Evaluation
 Conclusion and Future work
 FUTURE WORK

• Performance of this solar cell may be increase by including buffer layer or multi-junction
heterostructure cell.
• Further studies can be made in using other factors that are constraints in thickness reduction of
solar cell or designing nanowire solar cell.
• designed cells of this work need to be fabricated for further investigation.
• More research needs to be done on this material for its design process and the fabrication
techniques.