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Porous Silicon Antireflective Coatings for Silicon 

Solar Cells 
 

Achoura-Mouna Mouafki 

Department of Matter Sciences 
Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life 

University Larbi Ben M’hidi 

Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria 
mouafki.mouna17@gmail.com 

Faiza Bouaïcha 

Laboratory of the Active Components and Materials 
Institute of Science and Applied Techniques 

University Larbi Ben M’hidi 

Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria 
f_bouaicha@yahoo.com 

Abouelfath Hedibi 

Materials Science and Informatics Laboratory 
Faculty of Science 

University of Djelfa 

Djelfa, Algeria 
abouelfath.hedibi@gmail.com 

Ahmed Gueddim 

Materials Science and Informatics Laboratory 
Faculty of Science 

University of Djelfa 

Djelfa, Algeria 
ahmed_gueddim@yahoo.fr 

 

Received: 3 February 2022 | Revised: 11 February 2022 | Accepted: 13 February 2022 

 

Abstract-This study presents a numerical investigation of the 

reflectivity of a Single Anti-Reflective Layer (SARL) and a stack 

of antireflective layers made of porous silicon. The stack consists 

of a certain number of periods, and each period contains two 

layers with different porosity. The simulations were conducted 

using the well-known Stratified Medium Theory (SMT) 

framework and the effect of porosity was studied. The optimal 
value was determined at 60% for the SARL and 65/55% for the 

stack of 12 periods and 6 layers. The angle of incidence was found 

to have more influence on the stack reflection than on the SARL 

reflection. The results of this investigation show that porous 

silicon can be used as an effective anti-reflective coating for 

silicon solar cells. 

Keywords-porous silicon; silicon; solar cell;reflectivity 

I. INTRODUCTION  

The photovoltaic effect is defined as the direct 
transformation of electromagnetic energy (solar radiation) into 
directly usable continuous electrical energy, and it was 
discovered in 1839 [1]. The photovoltaic effect has been 
exploited for the design of photovoltaic solar cells. Since the 
1990s, photovoltaic energy has attracted growing interest and 
many technological advances have been made through several 
technological sectors. Photovoltaic electricity production has 
increased exponentially since 2001, and projections are quite 
optimistic for the coming years [2]. Cell efficiency will 
certainly increase and, according to the Community Research 
and Development Information Service (CORDIS), the lifespan 
of cells in 2030 will be 40 years with an energy payback time 
of only one year and very satisfactory efficiency [3]. The 
efficiency of a solar cell is mainly limited by the various losses 
that occur in the cell. Among these losses, the reflection of 

incident photons at the surface of the cell (emitter, or window 
layer) contributes to the degradation of the collection efficiency 
of the cell. To remedy this problem, antireflection layers are 
often used on the front face of the cell to reduce the reflected 
fraction of incident radiation and improve the transport of 
carriers via the passivation of defects inside the cell [4-6]. The 
simplest way to create an anti-reflective coating is to deposit a 
quarter-wave layer of a dielectric with an intermediate 
refractive index between that of the emitter (or the window) 
and the air (TiO2, Si3N4, Ta2O5, etc). For silicon, for example, a 
layer of Si3N4 quarter wavelength centered on the maximum of 
the solar spectrum AM1.5 reduces the reflection by 12% on 
average in the wavelength range 400-1100nm, increasing the 
photocurrent by 45% [7]. It should be noted that the reflection 
of silicon is between 35-40%, depending on the synthesis 
process [7-10]. In addition, porous silicon can be used as an 
alternative antireflective coating for silicon solar cells since the 
basis material is the same. 

Porous silicon was accidentally discovered in the 1950s in 
an attempt to develop an electrochemical method to fabricate 
silicon substrates for microelectronic devices. Under the 
appropriate electrochemical conditions, the silicon substrate did 
not dissolve uniformly as expected. However, fine holes 
appeared, propagating primarily within the material in the 
[100] direction. Since this did not provide the desired smooth 
polish, the material was somewhat abandoned. During the 
1970s and 1980s, significant interest arose because the high 
surface area of porous silicon was found to be useful as a 
model of the crystalline silicon surface in spectroscopic studies 
[11-14], as a precursor to generate thick oxide layers on silicon, 
and as a dielectric layer in capacitance-based chemical sensors 
[15]. Interest in porous silicon, and in particular its 

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nanostructure, exploded in the early 1990s when Ulrich 
Goesele at Duke University identified quantum confinement 
effects in the absorption spectrum of porous silicon, and almost 
simultaneously Leigh Canham in England reported efficient 
bright red-orange photoluminescence from the material [16, 
17]. The quantum confinement effects arise when the pores 
become extensive enough to overlap with each other, 
generating nanometer-scale silicon filaments. As expected from 
the quantum confinement relationship [18], the red to green 
color of photoluminescence occurs at energies significantly 
higher than the bandgap energy of bulk silicon (1.1eV, in the 
near-infrared). A little after, enormous work focused on 
creating silicon-based optoelectronic switches, displays, and 
lasers. At the same time, the unique properties of the material, 
such as large surface area, controllable pore sizes, convenient 
surface chemistry, and compatibility with conventional silicon 
microfabrication technologies, prompted research into novel 
applications: various biomedical sensors, optics, and 
electronics applications emerged [19]. 

This study examines the use of porous silicon with different 
porosity values as an antireflection coating to reduce light 
reflection and improve the conversion efficiency of silicon 
solar cells. Two different cases were considered: single 
antireflection layer and multilayered stack antireflection 
coating. The effect of the incidence angle was examined along 
with the determination of the reflectivity in each case. 

II. COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY 

The Stratified Medium Theory (SMT) was used for the 
calculation of the reflectivity of the studied ARCs. This 
approach is known to combine a simple formalism and great 
flexibility of use. More insights and details about SMT are 
given in [20-22]. Within SMT, the inhomogeneous medium is 
subdivided into N inhomogeneous strata with refractive index 

��� . Each stratum is represented by a complex characteristic 
matrix �� . Matrices ��  and ��  correspond to ambient and 
substrate semi-infinite media, respectively, as detailed in 
[21,22]. The simplified relation: 

�ab
 � M�
∏ M����� �M�	    (1) 
can be written more explicitly: 

�ab
 � �
p���
p���� ∏ �

cosδ�	 p���sinδ�
ip�sinδ� cosδ� "

���� � 1p��     (2) 
where $� is the phase shift due to the jth stratum: 

δ� � %&' N��d�cosθ�    (3) 
and +� is determined from the incidence angle +� according to 
the Snell-Descartes law: 

N��sinθ� � N��sinθ�    (4) 
For Transverse Electric (TE) polarization, ,� � ���-./+�, 

and for Transverse Magnetic (TM) polarization, ,� � ���/-./+�. Fresnel coefficients are calculated for both polarizations 
and each wavelength using: 

R23 � 4ab523 
and 

R26 � 478526    (5) 
Reflectivity can then be expressed as [21,22]: 

R � �% 9R23 R23∗ ; R26R26∗ <    (6) 
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 

A. Single Antireflection Layer 

Figure 1 represents the reflectivity as a function of the 
incident wavelength for a single antireflection layer made of 
porous silicon with different values of porosity ranging 
between 55 and 80%. As can be noted, the reflectivity at first 
increases, reaching a maximum value for wavelengths below 
400nm and then decreases until the wavelengths approach 
630nm. Beyond 630nm, the reflectivity increases again. 
Furthermore, the lowest reflectivity is obtained in the vicinity 
of 630nm and corresponds to porosity values of 55, 60, and 
65%. The best-retained result corresponds to a porosity of 60% 
and therefore to a refractive index of 1.96. This is in agreement 
with the findings reported in [23]. However, the reflectivity in 
the vicinity of 630nm in this study is better than the one 
obtained in [23]. In general, good agreement is recorded for 
other wavelengths. 

 

 
Fig. 1.  Reflectivity vs wavelength for a single porous silicon anti-

reflection layer for different porosity values. 

B. Effect of the Number of Layers in the Stack 

The anti-reflective coating is obtained by stacking a certain 
number of periods, each of them consisting of two layers of 
porous silicon with different porosity values. The effect of the 
number of layers of the stack on the reflectivity is illustrated in 
Figure 2. As can be noted, the stack of layers with minimum 
reflectivity consists of alternating layers of respective porosities 
65/60% with nL=6 periods. However, the corresponding 
wavelength range is relatively narrow. The stack with 6 layers 



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of respective porosity values of 65/55% is preferable as it is 
characterized by a wider range of wavelengths extending from 
580 to 690nm. The corresponding minimum reflectivity is as 
low as 1.46%. This can be traced back to the effect of the 
quantum confinement phenomenon. More details about this 
phenomenon can be found in [24-28]. These results are 
qualitatively similar in trend to the requirements reported in 
[29-35]. 

 

 
Fig. 2.  Reflectivity vs wavelength for a stack of porous silicon anti-

reflection coatings for different porosity values. 

C. Effect of the Angle of Incidence for a Single ARL 

The influence of the angle of incidence on the reflectivity of 
a simple porous silicon antireflection layer of 60% porosity 
with refractive index 1.96 is shown in Figure 3.  

 

 
Fig. 3.  Reflectivity as a function of the angle of incidence for a single 

porous silicon anti-reflection coating with a porosity of 60%. 

As it can be observed, the reflectivity is almost zero for 
angles of incidence less than 30°. This reflectivity increases up 
to 0.05 for angles between 30° and 53°, then it increases more 

for higher values of the angle of incidence. Therefore, it can be 
concluded that the angle of incidence affects the reflectivity 
only slightly until the angle of incidence exceeds 55°. 
Qualitatively similar behavior was reported in [22]. 

This result is confirmed in Figure 4 which represents the 
dependence on the wavelength of the reflectivity of a single 
layer of porous silicon used as an antireflection coating on a 
silicon-based photovoltaic cell, for different angles of 
incidence ranging from 0 to 80°. It is noted that the lowest 
reflectivity is recorded for normal incidence, and increasing 
the angles to more than 30° deteriorates the reflectivity. 

 

 

Fig. 4.  Reflectivity vs. wavelength for a single porous silicon anti-

reflection layer with 60% porosity for different incidence angles.  

D. Effect of the Angle of Incidence for a Stack of Anti-
Reflection Layers 

The chosen stack of layers was the optimal one consisting 
of stacking of porosity 65/55% with 1.78/2.14 refractive 
indices and nL=6 (nL being the number of layers in the stack). 
The corresponding reflectivity is plotted as a function of the 
angle of incidence in Figure 5.  

 

 
Fig. 5.  Reflectivity as a function of the angle of incidence for a stack of 

porous silicon antireflection layers with a porosity of 65%/55%. 



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Fig. 6.  Reflectivity vs. wavelength for a stack of porous silicon anti-

reflection layers with a porosity of 65%/55% for different incidence angles. 

As can be observed, the reflectivity is between 1.66% and 
18% for angles of incidence less than 20°, and between 18 and 
22.7% for angles between 20°-30°, and increases rapidly for 
angles above 30°. This confirms that the lowest reflectivity 
corresponds to the normal incidence, while the reflectivity of 
the stack increases when moving away from normal incidence. 

Figure 6 shows the reflectivity as a function of wavelength 
for angles of incidence ranging from 0 to 80°, for a stack of 
porous silicon anti-reflection layers with a porosity of 65/55%. 
It can be noted that the lowest reflectivity is recorded for the 
case of normal incidence. Furthermore, as the angle of 
incidence exceeds 20°, the reflectivity increases and shifts 
towards the lowest wavelengths.  

The conversion efficiency of a solar cell can be improved 
by making a judicious choice of the number of junctions in the 
cell and the materials whose energy gap can be controlled. This 
control can be easily obtained by alloying binary compounds to 
obtain ternary semiconductor alloys such as GaAs1-xNx, GaSb1-
xNx, or InAs1-xNx [36-39]. Other alloys that contain low 
concentration magnetic elements, called dilute magnetic 
semiconductors, can also be considered [40-43]. Their gaps are 
controllable by varying the concentration of the magnetic 
element and also by taking advantage of the spin channels. 

IV. CONCLUSION 

The reflectivity of a single antireflective layer made of 
porous silicon along with that of a multilayered stack of the 
same material was examined to reduce the reflection losses 
occurring in silicon solar cells. The effect of porosity, number 
of layers, and incidence angle was addressed and analyzed. The 
optimal porosity value was found to be 60% for the single anti-
reflective layer and 65/55% for the multilayered antireflective 
stack with 6 periods. The incidence angle effect was less for the 
single antireflective layer than for the stack. These results show 
that porous silicon can be used efficiently as an anti-reflective 
coating and can lead to improvements in the photovoltaic solar 
cell conversion efficiency. 

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