Evaluation of Transmittance Dependence on Incident Angle in Glass Plate Coated with TCO Film used for Thin Film Solar Cell

Introduction

In Application News A418, we introduced the distribution measurement of vertically-incident light transmitted through a glass plate coated with TCO (transparent conductive oxide) film. Here, we looked at the irradiation of sunlight at various angles of incidence on a solar cell, and measured the transmittance of this light irradiated at 6 different angles of incidence (0 ̊, 10 ̊, 20 ̊, 30 ̊, 40 ̊, 50 ̊) using the SolidSpec-3700 UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer.

June 28, 2010 GMT