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Therefore, bifacial solar cell can be implemented as structural component, i.e., fence or wall in building integrated photovoltaic systems.
This is, in contrast, with monofacial solar cells, which are often used at fixed angles. In some application environments, bifacial solar cell has an advantage since it works well in vertical configuration. There are several advantages of the bifacial solar cell configuration including lower temperature coefficient, capability to process thinner wafers, and ease of packaging both n and p type wafers in the same module. Bifacial solar cells are attractive because they represent an elegant solution to enhanced output at lower material costs. Introduction Bifacial solar cell is a symmetric solar cell configuration in which sunlight is harnessed from both front and rear surfaces. Keywords: Silicon, Bifacial Solar Cell, PC1D simulation 1. From this study, it was found that minority carrier lifetime and wafer thickness are critical parameters to bifacial solar cell performance. Our results also provide critical insight regarding fabrication of bifacial solar cells on good or poor quality Si wafers. The results from these simulation studies prove that it is possible to propose these design parameters for bifacial solar cell fabrication.
The efficiencies obtained from this design were % and % for front and back surfaces, respectively.
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The influence of various parameters such as emitter doping, bulk doping, minority carrier lifetime, wafer thickness, front and rear surface recombination and illumination from front and rear surfaces were investigated using PC1D software simulation. A different range of resistance variation are suggested for future related investigation.1 Design Optimization of Bifacial Solar Cell by PC1D Simulation Suhaila Sepeai, Saleem H.Zaidi, M.K.M.Desa, M.Y.Sulaiman, N.A.Ludin, M.Adib Ibrahim, K.Sopian Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia * of the corresponding author: Abstract In this study, design and optimization of bifacial solar cell was done with PC-1D simulation program. The overall investigation on single crystalline silicon solar cell base and emitter contact were done, gives potential parametric suggestion that may assist in the fabrication of high efficiency single crystalline silicon solar cells. Conclusion/Recommendations: From the evaluation, the lowest emitter resistance that will give highest value of parameter in the selected ranged is 1 mΩ while for the base contact will be 15 mΩ. It is found that as the contact resistance goes higher, the values of the parameters deceased. As the two variable factors that take into the account, while evaluating one factor, the other was set to constant value. Results: The short circuit current Isc, the open circuit voltage Voc, the maximum power Pm and the fill factor are the observed parameters due to the variations of the resistance on the emitter and base contact. A range of contact resistance of emitter and base were applied to PC1D software for evaluation. Approach: Effects of the resistance of the emitter and base contact have been investigated with a view to find the best resistive combinations. To optimize this combination, single crystalline silicon solar cell was analyzed using quasi-one-dimensional transport of electrons and holes in crystalline semiconductor, PC1D. Problem statement: Unmatched combination of emitter and base contact resistance will influence the total performance of the solar cell.