Increased energy demand and lack of mounting places for solar cells caused process of photovoltaic integration as component of buildings. Taking into account the architectural language of buildings, solar cells can be covered under different colors and shapes, but at cost of lower efficiency. Development is therefore to aim towards finding optimal balance between look and efficiency of solar cells.
In this thesis we are describing the modelling of colored layers, applied to the top layer of solar cell, with help of optical simulations. The obtained data is evaluated with color fields using numerical methods. Two different models of colored layers are presented and used on real solar cell structure examples. With modelling, we have shown the effect of using various colored layers on solar cells. We have simulated the effect of covering percentage on short-circuit current. In addition, different color combinations and shapes of coverage are presented. With this approach, we presented one of the possible modelling methods to show the effect of colored layers on solar cell look and short-cicuit current.
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