The invention provides a thin-film
solar cell.
Electrode grooves are formed in a low-resistance window layer, and collection electrodes are deposited in the
electrode grooves respectively. On the premise that the thickness of a buffer layer and the thickness of a high-resistance window layer are large enough so that the density of a film layer of the thin-film
solar cell can be ensured, the
photon-generated carrier recombination probability of an interface can be effectively lowered. Due to the fact that the collection electrodes are arranged in the
electrode grooves respectively, the thickness of the portions, in the
perpendicular direction of the contacting areas of the collection electrodes and the
electrode grooves, of the high-resistance window layer can be reduced, the
internal resistance of the
solar cell can be effectively reduced, the output power of the solar
cell can be improved, meanwhile, the contact area between the collection electrodes and a transparent window layer composed of the high-resistance window layer and the low-resistance window layer is increased, the collection rate of the collection electrodes for
photon-generated carriers is improved, and the output power of the thin-film solar
cell is further improved. In addition, a method for preparing the thin-film solar
cell is simple in process and allows large-scale industrial production to be easily achieved.