... hydrogenated amorphoussilicon (a-Si:H), microcrystallinesilicon (µc-Si), micro-morph tandem siliconand polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thinfilmsolarcells CIGS and CdTe thinfilmsolarcells ... to the concept of thinfilmsolarcellsThinfilm technologies comprises of copper indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) andsilicon based thinfilmsolar cells; which include ... R Egan, and M A Green, "Polycrystalline Silicon on Glass Thin- FilmSolar Cells: A Transition from Solid-Phase to Liquid-Phase Crystallised Silicon, " Solar Energy Materials andSolarCells 119,...
... Heterojunction (HJ) siliconsolarcells use crystalline silicon wafers for both carrier transport and absorption, andamorphous and/ or microcrystallinethinsilicon layers for passivation and junction ... wafer-based crystalline silicon (c-Si) solarcellsand thin- filmsiliconsolarcells Wafer-based c-Si solarcells dominated the PV market in 2008 with an overall share of 87%, and feature a high module ... combining both wafer-based c-Si and thin- filmsiliconsolarcells Heterojunction siliconsolarcells can achieve high conversion efficiencies while using thin- filmsilicon processes to lower the...
... structures and doping levels Keywords: buffer layer; amorphous materials; thin films; plasma deposition; electrical properties Introduction TCO plays an important role in a silicon- based thin- filmsolar ... based thinfilmsolarcellsThin Solid Films 1999, 351:247-253 [2] Tark SJ, Kang MG, Park S, Jang JH, Lee JC, Kim WM, Lee JS, Kim D: Development of surface-textured hydrogenated ZnO:Al thin- films ... a-SiC:H and ZnO:Al in p-i-n amorphoussiliconsolarcells Seungsin Baek*1, Jeong Chul Lee2, Youn-Jung Lee1, Sk Md Iftiquar1, Youngkuk Kim1, Jinjoo Park1, and Junsin Yi*1 School of Information and...
... structures and doping levels Keywords: buffer layer; amorphous materials; thin films; plasma deposition; electrical properties Introduction TCO plays an important role in a silicon- based thin- filmsolar ... based thinfilmsolarcellsThin Solid Films 1999, 351:247-253 [2] Tark SJ, Kang MG, Park S, Jang JH, Lee JC, Kim WM, Lee JS, Kim D: Development of surface-textured hydrogenated ZnO:Al thin- films ... a-SiC:H and ZnO:Al in p-i-n amorphoussiliconsolarcells Seungsin Baek*1, Jeong Chul Lee2, Youn-Jung Lee1, Sk Md Iftiquar1, Youngkuk Kim1, Jinjoo Park1, and Junsin Yi*1 School of Information and...
... 12.1 – – – – AmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphous Crystalline AmorphousAmorphousAmorphousAmorphous Y.S Jung et al / Thin Solid Films 445 (2003) ... heat-treated IZO or ITO thin films Song et al reported that pure In2O3 amorphousthin films were crystallized by annealing at 150–160 8C, but the crystallization of ITO thin films needed the temperature ... (Tc) of amorphous IZO thinfilm seems to be between 500 and 600 8C, which confirms the XRD results The reason of the small height of the peak seems to be that the IZO thinfilm was as thin as...
... Jsc, FF, and efficiency are 602 mV, 36.9 mA/cm2, 80.1%, and 17.75%, respectively It can be applied to the manufacturing of low-cost, simple, and high-efficiency solarcells Keywords: solar cell; ... paste on the electrical and physical properties of screen printed contacts andsiliconsolarcells J Electrochem Soc 2006, 153:A5-A11 Pysch D, Mette A, Glunz SW: A review and comparison of different ... and comparison of different methods to determine the series resistance of solarcellsSolar Energy Materials andSolarCells 2007, 91:1698-1706 Vinod PN: Evaluation of the ohmic properties of...
... the transmittance is low, and it is possible to produce thin films with high reflectivity A thinfilm with a refractive index of 2.3 has a high reflectivity of 3%, and a film with a refractive index ... deposited films is increased, enhancing the refractive index value and the deposition rate As the gas ratio, R, increases, the film thickness decreases since the nitrogen atoms within the thinfilm ... thinfilm is diffused into the silicon during the firing process and the hydrogen bonds with dangling bonds, resulting in good passivation and stability However, the nitrogen atoms remain within...
... indoor measurement standard to characterise bifacial solarcellsand modules This thesis focuses on characterisation and standardisation of bifacial solarcellsand modules, and on performance ... bifacial solarcellsand modules For conventional monofacial solarcellsand modules, standards have been adopted to rate them in terms of output power and efficiency under STC 26 [96] These standards ... presented the challenges and difficulties in characterising bifacial solarcellsand modules [32-34] For bifacial solar cells, most authors measure and report the front and rear side electrical...
... On the other hand, thin- film PV technologies, such as copper-indium-galliumselenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) andsilicon thin- filmsolarcells (i.e a-Si:H and µc-Si:H solarcells as well ... two thin- film technologies CIGS and CdTe, silicon thin- film PV still has a significantly lower conversion efficiency: CIGS solarcells can reach an efficiency of 20.8 % [8-10], and CdTe solarcells ... doped thin- filmsilicon films, i.e doped a-Si:H and doped µc-Si:H, are very defective and cannot be used as an absorber layer for thin- filmsolarcells Hence, un-doped (so called intrinsic) films...
... of solar cell designs have already been demonstrated [4], ranging from monocrystalline/multicrystalline solar cells, thin- filmsolar cells, organic solar cells, tandem cells, concentrator cells ... “Micro Raman spectroscopy analysis of doped amorphousandmicrocrystallinesiliconthinfilm layers and its application in heterojunction silicon wafer solarcells , Trans Mat Res Soc Japan 39(1) (2014) ... doped siliconthin films suitable for device integration into heterojunction silicon wafer solarcellsand subsequently the modelling of heterojunction and hybrid heterojunction silicon wafer solar...
... facing poly-Si thin- filmsolarcells In Chapter 2, the background on poly-Si thin- filmsolarcells is discussed in some detail Various approaches to fabricate poly-Si thin- filmsolarcells are presented, ... respective thin- film poly-Si solarcells device properties The standard process of CSG Solar involves the PECVD deposition of barrier layers (silicon nitride andsilicon oxide) and n+/p-/p+ amorphoussilicon ... temperature on crystallisation kinetics, film properties and cell performance of silicon thin- filmsolarcells on glass, Solar Energy Materials andSolarCells (2012) 186-192 [15] H.M Branz, C.W...
... content on the structural and photoluminescence properties of silicon- rich silicon dioxide thin films Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:161 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient ... study through the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology program (DAPHNES project ANR-08-NANO-005) Authors’ contributions OD fabricated the thin films and carried out the optical and microstructural characterizations ... luminescence in Nd-doped silicon- rich silicon oxide Appl Phys Lett 2003, 83:2778 12 MacDonald AN, Hryciw A, Lenz F, Meldrum A: Interaction between amorphoussilicon nanoclusters and neodymium ions...
... thin- filmsolarcells on glass [11] 17 2.3 Glass and Si texturing techniques 2.3.1 Glass texturing techniques For amorphoussilicon thin- filmsolarcells [12] and the micromorph silicon thinfilm ... Si thin- filmsolarcells technology is ‘micromorph’ tandem solar cell proposed by University of Neuchatel [6], which stacks one a-Si thin- filmsolar with a microcrystallinesilicon (µc-Si) thin- film ... Polycrystalline Si thin- filmsolarcells The polycrystalline Si (poly-Si) thin- filmsolar cell technology is another important thin- film PV technology Compared to the above mentioned thin- film technologies,...
... consumption and the ability to fabricate the solarcells on inexpensive, large-area foreign substrates and to monolithically series-connect the fabricated solarcells [3] Thin- filmsolarcells are ... highly versatile and powerful current-voltage (I-V) tester for thin- filmsolarcellsand modules was designed, constructed, and thoroughly tested The I-V tester is able to measure thin- film modules ... tester for its thin- filmsolarcellsand modules, but such a system is not commercially available yet In this project, a cost-effective but highly versatile and powerful I-V tester, thin- film Sunalyzer...
... consumption and the ability to fabricate the solarcells on inexpensive, large-area foreign substrates and to monolithically series-connect the fabricated solarcells [3] Thin- filmsolarcells are ... highly versatile and powerful current-voltage (I-V) tester for thin- filmsolarcellsand modules was designed, constructed, and thoroughly tested The I-V tester is able to measure thin- film modules ... tester for its thin- filmsolarcellsand modules, but such a system is not commercially available yet In this project, a cost-effective but highly versatile and powerful I-V tester, thin- film Sunalyzer...
... Junction MicrocrystallineSiliconSolarCells 4.3.3 Tandem Amorphous/ MicrocrystallineSiliconSolar Cells: The Micromorph Concept 4.4 Conclusions References 133 Advanced AmorphousSiliconSolar ... Market share//techology filmsolar cell technologies and consists of % based on thinfilmamorphous Si solarcellsand % on polycrystalline compound solarcells based on CdTe and CuInSe2 (Figure ... Efficient SolarCells 5.5.4 Light Trapping and Transparent Conductive Oxides 5.5.5 Degradation of Hydrogenated AmorphousSiliconSolarCells 5.5.6 Multijunction Hydrogenated AmorphousSiliconSolar Cells...
... group and 300 – 350 nm group 3.2.1 Raman spectrum of WO3 thin films on ITO layers with thickness, altering from 150 to 250nm Figure shows XRD and Raman spectra of WO3 powder sample and WO3 films, ... difference in structure between WO3 films and WO3 powder sample and between one film to another These numbers show no difference in structure between WO3 powder and WO3 films However, we could not eliminate ... LeGore, R.J Lad, Thin solid films 400 (2001) 56 Huiyao Wang, Pei Xu, Tianmin Wang, Thin solid films 388 (2001) 68 Christian Salinga, Hansjörg Weis, Matthias Wuttig, Thin solid films 414 (2002)...
... we expect the SiNWs solarcells to show improved optical properties compared with conventional planar Si solarcells Fig 2(a) shows the photograph of the fabricated SiNWs solar cell The surface ... fabricated SiNWs solar cell was measured by solar simulator under AM 1.5 (100 mA/cm2) Fig shows the typical dark and light I–V curve of the SiNWs solar cell Clear rectifying behavior and power generation ... the fabricated SiNWs solar cell under dark and light conditions the thickness of Si base substrate more thinly For improvement of conversion efficiency of the SiNWs solar cells, the reduction...
... 4f5/2 and W 4f7/2 are found to lie at 37.1 and 35.20 eV, respectively and are contributed to lattice tungsten in the WO3 crystal 3.2 Gas sensing properties of the thin film sensors Results and discussion ... gases/air mixture and in air, respectively Fig X-ray diffraction patterns of the thin films annealed at different temperatures pattern and the result indicates that the sample was amorphous or in ... sensitivity and TMA concentration at 70◦ C NH3 , gasoline, C2 H5 OH, CH4 and CO at the same concentration of 1000 ppm and to water vapor These experimental results indicate that the WO3 thin film...
... Hydrogenated MicrocrystallineSilicon Thin- Film for Thin- FilmSiliconSolarCells 359 Jhantu Kumar Saha and Hajime Shirai Chapter 18 Chemical Surface Deposition of CdS Ultra Thin Films from Aqueous ... in the thin- film photovoltaics is the so-called micromorph solar cells, which are closely related to the amorphoussilicon The term “micromorph” is used for stacked tandem thin- filmsolarcells ... micromorph solarcells open new perspectives for lowtemperature thin- film crystalline silicon technology and even has the potential to become for the next third generation of thin- filmsolar cells...