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Enhancement of performance of TiO2/Cu2O solar cells

B. ZAIDI1,* , A. KERBOUB1, T. BOUARROUDJ2, C. SHEKHAR3, T. MAHMOOD4, M. A. SAEED5

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Material Sciences, University of Batna 1, Batna, Algeria
  2. Scientific and technical research center in physico-chemical analyses (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-ismail, RP 42004, Tipaza, Algeria
  3. Department of Applied Physics, Amity University Gurgaon, Haryana, 122413, India
  4. Department of Physics, GCW University, Sialkot, Pakistan
  5. Department of Physics, Division of S&T, University of Education, Lahore-Pakistan

Abstract

The TiO2/Cu2O heterojunction solar cell was investigated in the study given by using the Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS). It has been thoroughly investigated how different layer factors, such as thickness, defect density and acceptor density affect cell performance. The efficiencies (η) of solar cell were shown to be influenced by the thickness of the absorber (Cu2O) and buffer (TiO2) layers using numerical analysis. TiO2/Cu2O optimized solar cell design demonstrated potential efficiency of about 23%. We then looked at how temperature affected the photovoltaic efficiency..

Keywords

Absorber layer, Electron transport layer, Solar Cell,TiO2, Cu2O.

Submitted at: June 10, 2023
Accepted at: Nov. 24, 2023

Citation

B. ZAIDI, A. KERBOUB, T. BOUARROUDJ, C. SHEKHAR, T. MAHMOOD, M. A. SAEED, Enhancement of performance of TiO2/Cu2O solar cells, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 25, Iss. 11-12, pp. 549-553 (2023)