thin film solar cells modeling obtaining and applications

... On the other hand, thin- film PV technologies, such as copper-indium-galliumselenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) and silicon thin- film solar cells (i.e a-Si:H and µc-Si:H solar cells as well ... two thin- film technologies CIGS and CdTe, silicon thin- film PV still has a significantly lower conversion efficiency: CIGS solar cells can reach an efficiency of 20.8 % [8-10], and CdTe solar cells ... doped thin- film silicon 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- film solar cells Hence, un-doped (so called intrinsic) films...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... facing poly-Si thin- film solar cells In Chapter 2, the background on poly-Si thin- film solar cells is discussed in some detail Various approaches to fabricate poly-Si thin- film solar cells are presented, ... temperature on crystallisation kinetics, film properties and cell performance of silicon thin- film solar cells on glass, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2012) 186-192 [15] H.M Branz, C.W ... Characterisation of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin- film Solar Cells 2.1 Background and Current Status 2.2 Challenges for the Progress of Poly-Si Thin- film Solar Cells on Glass 11 2.3...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:23

... consumption and the ability to fabricate the solar cells on inexpensive, large-area foreign substrates and to monolithically series-connect the fabricated solar cells [3] Thin- film solar cells are ... highly versatile and powerful current-voltage (I-V) tester for thin- film solar cells and modules was designed, constructed, and thoroughly tested The I-V tester is able to measure thin- film modules ... tester for its thin- film solar cells and 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...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:45

... consumption and the ability to fabricate the solar cells on inexpensive, large-area foreign substrates and to monolithically series-connect the fabricated solar cells [3] Thin- film solar cells are ... highly versatile and powerful current-voltage (I-V) tester for thin- film solar cells and modules was designed, constructed, and thoroughly tested The I-V tester is able to measure thin- film modules ... tester for its thin- film solar cells and 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:57

... thin- film solar cells on glass [11] 17 2.3 Glass and Si texturing techniques 2.3.1 Glass texturing techniques For amorphous silicon thin- film solar cells [12] and the micromorph silicon thinfilm ... Polycrystalline Si thin- film solar cells The polycrystalline Si (poly-Si) thin- film solar cell technology is another important thin- film PV technology Compared to the above mentioned thin- film technologies, ... Si thin- film solar cells technology is ‘micromorph’ tandem solar cell proposed by University of Neuchatel [6], which stacks one a-Si thin- film solar with a microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si) thin- film...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... functions ' ; Kj and , rj with j 0, as well as their duals ' and Q , are constructed by translation and dilation of a single scaling Q function ' and a single mother wavelet (resp ' and Q ) Clearly, ... (www.springer.com) Preface The CIME-EMS Summer School in applied mathematics on “Multiscale and Adaptivity: Modeling, Numerics and Applications was held in Cetraro (Italy) from July to 11, 2009 This course ... University of Maryland, and Andreas Veeser, from Universit` di Milano, in their joint course started with an overview of the a posteriori a error estimation for finite element methods, and then they...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 22:20

... Thin Film Solar Cells 341 Rabin Dhakal, Yung Huh, David Galipeau and Xingzhong Yan Chapter 17 Photons as Working Body of Solar Engines V.I Laptev and H Khlyap Chapter 18 Hybrid Solar Cells Based ... Organic Solar Cells: Polymers and Devices Development 433 Enwei Zhu, Linyi Bian, Jiefeng Hai, Weihua Tang and Fujun Zhang 415 Contents Chapter 21 Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells Qun Ye and ... as an absorber layer in p-i-n junction solar cells, InGaAsN as a promising material for high efficiency multi-junction tandem solar cells, InP in solar cells with semiconductorinsulator-semiconductor...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... technology more attractive and smart7-12 Classification of solar cells Author has made an effort to classify the available solar cells Fig Classification of Solar cells Organic solar cells are discussed ... second-generation low- cost metal-oxides thin- film solar cells promising candidates for solar applications 2.3 Abundance of the elements The first challenge for PV cells designer is undoubtedly the ... camera and the solar cells offers the potential to analyse wide variety of solar cells 7.4 Fill factor The quality of solar cells is measured in terms of fill factor The fill factor for a ideal solar...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... Polymer-based solar cell materials and manufacturing techniques 66 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions are suitable and applicable for flexible and non-transparent textiles, especially tapes and fibers, ... designed by Tine Hertz and Maria Langberg of Danmarks Designkole Shafarman et al., (2003) demonstrated thin film solar cells by using CuInGaSe2 photovoltaic polymers and this film is more suitable ... development of organic and polymeric photovoltaics Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 83, 125 [12] Granstrom, M., Petritsch, K., Arias, A.C., Lux, A., Andersson, M.R and Friend, R.H (1998)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... situ within a MEH-PPV film (Watt et al., 2004; Watt et al., 2005) CuInS2 and CuInSe2 which have been successfully used in inorganic thin film solar cells are promising for hybrid solar cells as ... solar cells, band gaps, and the offsets between donor and acceptor LUMO levels of the donor materials Fig (a) J-V characteristics of the best solar cells fabricated from blends of P3HT:CdSe and ... of donor 110 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions and acceptor phases within the heterojunction solar cell Different nanostructuring approaches for hybrid heterojunction solar cells have been...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... heterojunction solar cells: Morphology and its implications, Thin Solid Films 511: 358–361 Wienk, M., Turbiez, M., Gilot, J & Janssen, R (2008) Narrow-bandgap diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer solar cells: ... composite thin film is favorable for low cost product of solar cell In this chapter, Ge/TiO2 and PbSe/ZnSe composite thin film are presented, and they were prepared through rf sputtering and hot ... synthesis of composite thin film This chapter focuses on one-step physical synthesis of Ge/TiO2 composite thin films by rf sputtering and PbSe/ZnSe composite thin films by HWD, as candidate materials...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... band gap energies for Cu2O and CuO are 2.1 eV and 1.85 eV, respectively Thin films prepared in the absence of a reactive gas and plasma were also deposited on glass substrates and in these films ... semiconductor material that could be 168 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions used as anode material in thin film lithium batteries (Lee et al, 2004) as well as in solar cells (Akimoto et al., 2006; Musa ... because of their applications in solar cell technology The semiconductor cuprous oxide Cu2O film has been of considerable interest as a component of solar cells due to its band gap energy and high optical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... Intermediate-Band Solar Cells Semiconductor Superlattice-Based Intermediate-Band Solar Cells EIB IB CB FC FI G FV Load Fig Model of the band structure of a solar cell with intermediate band The terminals ... performance of solar cells The proposed concepts include, among others, third-generation devices such as tandem cells, hot carrier cells, impurity photovoltaic and intermediate-band cells (Green, ... Superlattice-Based Intermediate-Band Solar Cells Semiconductor Superlattice-Based Intermediate-Band Solar Cells 229 19 Luque, A & Martí, A (1997) Increasing the efficiency of ideal solar cells by photon induced...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... principle, manufacturing techniques, and characterization of organic solar cells as well as polymer based organic solar cells and studies about nanofibers and flexible solar cells will be given In the ... microcrystalline silicon thin films Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (c-Si:H) thin films are promising new materials for low-cost solar cells The microcrystalline Si thin film approach has several ... physics and chemistry Incorporation of solar cells with fibers and textiles that are flexible can extend the applications of photovoltaics from military and space applications to lighting and providing...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... results, for light transmission, absorption and loss in fiber-based organic solar cells using ray tracing 276 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions and optical path iteration A patent was developed ... W.; Gong, X & Cao, Y (2010) Polymer solar cells: Recent development and possible routes for improvement in the performance Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol.94, No.2, pp.114–127, ISSN ... organic solar cells Thin Solid Films,Vol 511–512, pp.349–353, ISSN: 00406090 Dennler, G & Sariciftci, N.S (2005) Flexible conjugated polymer-based plastic solar cells: From basic to applications...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... MacDiamid, and H Shirakawa began and soon they found a remarkable effect that the electrical conductivity of the polyacetylene thin- film increased over seven 310 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions ... two types of PV devices (a) lattice-matched solar cells and (b) metamorphic (lattice-mismatched) solar cells In particular, III-V multijunction solar cells have shown the greatest progress in overall ... wide band gap range of 0.65–3.4 eV in InxGa1-x N, this material is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for third-generation photovoltaic cells 308 Solar Cells – New Aspects and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... 342 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions tandem solar cells and moderately efficient organic based photovoltaic solar cells (Sean and Ghassan, 2005; Currie et al., 2008) The technology and ... science for third generation solar cells are still immature and subject of widespread research area in PV 1.1 Thin film solar cells Second Generation thin film solar cells (TFSC) are a promising ... prepare AlSb thin films for the solar cell applications In this work, we fabricated AlSb thin film cosputtering of Al and Sb target The film with optimized band-gap was used to fabricate p-n and p-i-n...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... splitting (Wang et al., 2010) 406 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions 3.2 Amorphous ( protocrystalline) and microcrystalline silicon solar cells The use of thin- film silicon for SCs is one of ... three kinds of Si-based solar cells, that is, single-, multi-crystalline or amorphous Si-based solar cells (for short, marked hereafter as Sc-Si, Mc-Si and a-Si solar cells, respectively) The ... view of thin film poly-Si solar cell with natural surface texture and enhanced absorption with back reflector structure Reprinted with permission from Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells Vol.93,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... high efficiency thin film silicon solar cell and module Solar Energy, Vol.77, No.6, pp 939–949 414 Solar Cells – New Aspects and Solutions Yan, B.; Yue, G.; Xu, X.; Yang, J.; and Guha, S (2010) ... Realization of high efficiency micromorph tandem silicon solar cells on glass and plastic substrates: Issues and potential Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, Vol.95, No.1, pp 127-130 Mohammadpour, ... ; Dubail, J.; Shah, A (2002) Microcrystalline Silicon and the Impact on Micromorph Tandem Solar Cells, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol 74, num 1-4, pp 457467 Meillaud, F; Feltrin,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... efficient organic thin- film Solar Cells Appl Phys Lett., Vol 95, No.5, (May 2009), pp (053701-053703), ISSN: 1077-3188 Krebs, F.C (2009) Fabrication and processing of polymer solar cells: a review ... to fabricate a tandem solar cell with both large band gap polymer and narrow band gap polymer utilized simultaneously for solar photon capture (Kim et al., 2007) Fig Reference solar irradiation ... low bandgap alternating indolocarbazole and benzothiadiazole-cored oligothiophene Towards High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells: Polymers and Devices Development 449 copolymer for organic solar...

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