Impact of incident light angle on the conversion efficiency of nano-structured GaAs solar cells
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Paper/Presentation Title | Impact of incident light angle on the conversion efficiency of nano-structured GaAs solar cells |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Sharma, Manish (Author), Das, Narottam (Author), Helwig, Andreas (Author) and Ahfock, Tony (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2017) |
ERA Conference ID | 50279 |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Year | 2018 |
Place of Publication | New York, United States |
ISBN | 9781538626474 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/AUPEC.2017.8282411 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8282411/ |
Conference/Event | 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2017) |
Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference | |
Event Details | 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2017) Event Date 19 to end of 22 Nov 2017 Event Location Melbourne, Australia |
Event Details | Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference AUPEC |
Abstract | This paper presents the impact of incident angle of sun lights on the conversion efficiency of nano-structured GaAs solar cells. The incident light angle plays an important role on the conversion efficiency of GaAs solar cells or panels. Over the day, the incident angle of the sunlight falling on the solar cell or panel varies from morning to afternoon and influences the light capturing of the cells or panels, hence affecting the conversion efficiency. The nano-grating structure with effective incident angle can trap more sunlight into the solar cells. In simulation, different nano-grating structures are considered, such as elliptical, triangular, trapezoidal and rectangular shaped with various grating heights from 100-nm to 400-nm. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation tool is used to simulate the light reflection, transmission and absorption in GaAs solar cells. From the simulation results, it has confirmed that the variation of incident light angle affects the light reflection losses, transmission, and absorption for all types of nano-grating shapes. Hence, this simulation results predicted that the light reflection loss is always least for the aspect ratio 0 ~ 0.5 at 0° incident angle, whereas the incident angle has less impact on the nano-grating height above 300 nm. |
Keywords | reflection, absorption, gratings, photovoltaic cells, nanostructures, gallium arsenide, coatings |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 400999. Electronics, sensors and digital hardware not elsewhere classified |
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Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering |
School of Engineering |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q49y4/impact-of-incident-light-angle-on-the-conversion-efficiency-of-nano-structured-gaas-solar-cells
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