SIMULATION OF THIN FILM CDTE SOLAR CELLS

Abstract

In this work, CdTe solar cells are studied by means of simulation using PC1D program. CdTe material has been selected because of its interesting properties in renewable energies field, especially for photovoltaic applications cases. The PC1D simulation has been run for a solar cell constituted of a thin film CdTe homojonction. Thus, several parameters have been taken into account. In particular, the effects of the p˗CdTe thickness layer (TL) and its concentration (C) have been investigated. It was noticed that the CdTe solar cell presented the best performances for optimum values of (TL) and (C) parameters. Indeed, for TL= 4μm a conversion efficiency (ɳ) of 16,49% has been obtained. Moreover, for C= 1×1016 cm-3, a value of ɳ= 18,20% has been achieved