1Ningxia Key Laboratory for Photovoltaic Materials, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021 2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
Abstract:The optical microcavity effect of the homo-tandem solar cells is explored utilizing the transfer matrix method. Ultrathin silver can reduce the deadzone effect compared with graphene and PH1000, and leads to a factor of 1.07 enhancement for an electrical field in a metal microcavity. The enhancement is considered to be the fact that strong exciton-photon coupling occurs in the microcavity due to ultrathin Ag. On the basis of the optical enhancement effect, optical behaviors are manipulated by varying the microcavity length. It is confirmed that ultrathin silver can serve as an ideal interconnection layer as the active layer is $\sim$150 nm thick and the thickness ratio between front and rear active layers lies between 1:1 and 1:2.