Cloaking of contact fingers on solar cells and OLEDs using free-form surfaces designed by coordinate transformations (Conference Presentation)

Martin F. Schumann; Malte Langenhorst; Michael Smeets; Kaining Ding; Ulrich W. Paetzold; Benjamin Fritz; Ralph Eckstein; Guillaume Gomard; Martin Wegener

doi:10.1117/12.2272911

21 September 2017 Cloaking of contact fingers on solar cells and OLEDs using free-form surfaces designed by coordinate transformations (Conference Presentation)

Martin F. Schumann, Malte Langenhorst, Michael Smeets, Kaining Ding, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Benjamin Fritz, Ralph Eckstein, Guillaume Gomard, Martin Wegener

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Proceedings Volume 10343, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2017; 1034314 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272911
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In transformation optics, coordinate transformations are usually mapped onto equivalent (meta-)material parameter distributions. In 2015, we introduced an approach mapping coordinate transformations onto dielectric free-form surfaces. We presented model experiments on cloaking of reflective contact fingers on solar cells. We now report on the fabrication of masters by 3D laser lithography used for soft imprinting. For prototype silicon heterojunction solar cells investigated under 1-sun illumination, we demonstrate the predicted 9% relative efficiency increase. We additionally show that our approach is adaptable to Lambertian sources, thereby cloaking light-emitting diode contacts to achieve spatially homogeneous emission.

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Martin F. Schumann, Malte Langenhorst, Michael Smeets, Kaining Ding, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Benjamin Fritz, Ralph Eckstein, Guillaume Gomard, and Martin Wegener "Cloaking of contact fingers on solar cells and OLEDs using free-form surfaces designed by coordinate transformations (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10343, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2017, 1034314 (21 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272911

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