Abstract
In pursuit of capturing more wave-guided luminescence for surface-printed bifacial GaAs μ-cells, the pyramid structure has been incorporated with specular back side reflector (BSR) to change the direction of photon propagation. Based on ray tracing model, the calculated photon capturing efficiency of GaAs μ-cells from back side via pyramid, dependent on the parameters of pyramid structure, achieve the largest 1.7× increase for dye absorption peak of 480 nm compared to the case without pyramid. More significantly, the short circuit current in experiment has been improved from original 16.5 mA/cm2 to 23.75 mA/cm2 for the AM 1.5G solar spectrum. Further experiment demonstrates that the optimized pyramid structure enables the integrated luminescent intensity to reach ∼3× increase in a smaller distance of optical transport, which means the advantages in photon capturing efficiency for cells with higher aspect ratio. The calculation further confirms that the cells with higher aspect ratio, among all cells with the same area, realize the higher concentration ratio for the same geometric gain. This provides a guideline for design of cell geometries to guarantee a higher power output in terms of cell modules.
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