{"id":36237,"date":"2015-04-01T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvaco.com\/%e6%9c%aa%e5%88%86%e7%b1%bb\/optimizing-solar-cell-top-metal-contact-design-introduction\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:01:26","slug":"optimizing-solar-cell-top-metal-contact-design-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvaco.com\/zh-hans\/simulation-standard-zh-hans\/optimizing-solar-cell-top-metal-contact-design-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing Solar Cell Top Metal Contact Design Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='template_overview'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-small avia-no-border-styling  avia-bg-style-scroll  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap fullsize' style='background-color: #ffffff;  margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; '  ><div class='container' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-36237'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-equal-height-column-flextable -flextable' style='margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:0px; '><div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top first  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='padding:0px 0px 0px 0px ; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 align=\"left\">Optimizing Solar Cell Top Metal Contact Design Introduction<\/h1>\n<p>Among the many design criteria for solar cells, the design of the top metal contact impacts the cell efficiency. The areal density of the top contact modifies the magnitude of the cell output power significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Solar cells suffer from optical losses. These limit the total number of photogenerated carriers. Add to that, carriers suffer from electronic (recombination) losses. Using numerical simulations these losses can be quantified and minimized.<\/p>\n<p>Photogenerated carriers experience bulk resistivities as well as surface sheet resistivity before collection at the top contacts. The contact design aims to maximise carrier collection against internal resistance and metal shadowing. For complex metal designs there are no simple analytical solutions for the optimum contact areal density. 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