Acta Physica Sinica, Volume. 69, Issue 9, 098802-1(2020)

Modeling and simulating of radiation effects on the performance degradation of GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells induced by different energy protons

Jun-Wei Li1, Zu-Jun Wang2、*, Cheng-Ying Shi1, Yuan-Yuan Xue2、*, Hao Ning3, Rui Xu3, Qian-Li Jiao3, and Tong-Xuan Jia3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Xi’an Research Institute of High-Technology, Xi’an 710025, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Irradiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi’an 710024, China
  • 3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
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    Structure parameters of GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells.
    Normalized maximum power versus fluence at the proton irradiation energy of 1 and 3 MeV (symbols and lines are experimental and simulation results respectively).
    Simulation results of I-V curves of GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells irradiated by protons with different energy and fluence: (a) 0.7 MeV; (b) 1 MeV; (c) 3 MeV; (d) 5 MeV; (e) 10 MeV.
    Simulation results of normalized short-circuit current versus proton fluence for the GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells irradiated by different energy proton.
    Simulation results of normalized open-circuit voltage versus proton fluence for GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells irradiated by different energy proton.
    Simulation results of external quantum efficiency of GaInP and GaAs sub-cells before and after different energy proton irradiation with the fluence of 3 × 1012 cm–2.
    (a) Simulation results of current density (Je) of minority carriers (electron) of GaAs middle cell base region before irradiation; (b) simulation results of current density of minority carriers (electron) versus base thickness for GaAs middle cell base region before and after different energy proton irradiation with the fluence of 3 × 1012 cm–2.
    Simulation results of normalized maximum power versus proton fluence for GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells irradiated by different energy proton.
    Degradation of normalized maximum power versus displacement damage dose for GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells.
    • Table 1. [in Chinese]

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      Table 1. [in Chinese]

      Deep levelE/eV NT/1014cm–3
      H1Ev + 0.55 eV 2.70
      H2Ev + 0.71 eV 4.05
      H3Ev + 0.90 eV 1.80
      E1Ec – 0.20 eV 4.60
      E2Ec – 0.36 eV 1.00
      E3Ec – 0.54 eV 2.22
      E4Ec – 0.79 eV 3.60
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      Table 2. [in Chinese]

      Deep levelE/eV NT/1014 cm–3
      H1Ev + 0.18 eV 4.030
      H2Ev + 0.23 eV 4.370
      H3Ev + 0.27 eV 4.790
      H4Ev + 0.77 eV 1.780
      E1Ec – 0.14 eV 1.600
      E2Ec – 0.25 eV 0.448
      E3Ec – 0.54 eV 0.557
      E4Ec – 0.72 eV 2.480
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    Jun-Wei Li, Zu-Jun Wang, Cheng-Ying Shi, Yuan-Yuan Xue, Hao Ning, Rui Xu, Qian-Li Jiao, Tong-Xuan Jia. Modeling and simulating of radiation effects on the performance degradation of GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells induced by different energy protons[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2020, 69(9): 098802-1

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    Received: Dec. 11, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 26, 2020

    The Author Email: Yuan-Yuan Xue (xueyuanyuan@nint.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.7498/aps.69.20191878

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