... On the other hand, thin- film PV technologies, such as copper-indium-galliumselenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride (CdTe) and silicon 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- 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- filmsolarcells Hence, un-doped (so called intrinsic) films...
... 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, ... 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 ... Characterisation of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin- filmSolarCells 2.1 Background and Current Status 2.2 Challenges for the Progress of Poly-Si Thin- filmSolarCells on Glass 11 2.3...
... 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...
... thin- filmsolarcells on glass [11] 17 2.3 Glass and Si texturing techniques 2.3.1 Glass texturing techniques For amorphous silicon thin- filmsolarcells [12] and the micromorph silicon thinfilm ... 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, ... Si thin- filmsolarcells technology is ‘micromorph’ tandem solar cell proposed by University of Neuchatel [6], which stacks one a-Si thin- filmsolar with a microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si) thin- film...
... 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 andApplications 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...
... ThinFilmSolarCells 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 SolarCells 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 SolarCells 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 solarcells with semiconductorinsulator-semiconductor...
... technology more attractive and smart7-12 Classification of solarcells Author has made an effort to classify the available solarcells Fig Classification of Solarcells Organic solarcells are discussed ... second-generation low- cost metal-oxides thin- filmsolarcells promising candidates for solarapplications 2.3 Abundance of the elements The first challenge for PV cells designer is undoubtedly the ... camera and the solarcells offers the potential to analyse wide variety of solarcells 7.4 Fill factor The quality of solarcells is measured in terms of fill factor The fill factor for a ideal solar...
... Polymer-based solar cell materials and manufacturing techniques 66 SolarCells – 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 thinfilmsolarcells by using CuInGaSe2 photovoltaic polymers and this film is more suitable ... development of organic and polymeric photovoltaics Solar Energy Materials andSolar Cells, 83, 125 [12] Granstrom, M., Petritsch, K., Arias, A.C., Lux, A., Andersson, M.R and Friend, R.H (1998)...
... situ within a MEH-PPV film (Watt et al., 2004; Watt et al., 2005) CuInS2 and CuInSe2 which have been successfully used in inorganic thinfilmsolarcells are promising for hybrid solarcells 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 solarcells fabricated from blends of P3HT:CdSe and ... of donor 110 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions and acceptor phases within the heterojunction solar cell Different nanostructuring approaches for hybrid heterojunction solarcells have been...
... 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 thinfilm is favorable for low cost product of solar cell In this chapter, Ge/TiO2 and PbSe/ZnSe composite thinfilm are presented, and they were prepared through rf sputtering and hot ... synthesis of composite thinfilm 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...
... 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 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions used as anode material in thinfilm lithium batteries (Lee et al, 2004) as well as in solarcells (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 solarcells due to its band gap energy and high optical...
... Intermediate-Band SolarCells Semiconductor Superlattice-Based Intermediate-Band SolarCells 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 solarcells 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 SolarCells Semiconductor Superlattice-Based Intermediate-Band SolarCells 229 19 Luque, A & Martí, A (1997) Increasing the efficiency of ideal solarcells by photon induced...
... principle, manufacturing techniques, and characterization of organic solarcells as well as polymer based organic solarcellsand studies about nanofibers and flexible solarcells will be given In the ... microcrystalline silicon thin films Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (c-Si:H) thin films are promising new materials for low-cost solarcells The microcrystalline Si thinfilm approach has several ... physics and chemistry Incorporation of solarcells with fibers and textiles that are flexible can extend the applications of photovoltaics from military and space applications to lighting and providing...
... results, for light transmission, absorption and loss in fiber-based organic solarcells using ray tracing 276 SolarCells – 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 andSolar Cells, Vol.94, No.2, pp.114–127, ISSN ... organic solarcellsThin 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...
... 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 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions ... two types of PV devices (a) lattice-matched solarcellsand (b) metamorphic (lattice-mismatched) solarcells In particular, III-V multijunction solarcells 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 SolarCells – New Aspects and...
... 342 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions tandem solarcellsand moderately efficient organic based photovoltaic solarcells (Sean and Ghassan, 2005; Currie et al., 2008) The technology and ... science for third generation solarcells are still immature and subject of widespread research area in PV 1.1 Thinfilmsolarcells Second Generation thinfilmsolarcells (TFSC) are a promising ... prepare AlSb thin films for the solar cell applications In this work, we fabricated AlSb thinfilm cosputtering of Al and Sb target The film with optimized band-gap was used to fabricate p-n and p-i-n...
... splitting (Wang et al., 2010) 406 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions 3.2 Amorphous ( protocrystalline) and microcrystalline silicon solarcells 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 solarcells (for short, marked hereafter as Sc-Si, Mc-Si and a-Si solar cells, respectively) The ... view of thinfilm poly-Si solar cell with natural surface texture and enhanced absorption with back reflector structure Reprinted with permission from Solar Energy Materials & SolarCells Vol.93,...
... high efficiency thinfilm silicon solar cell and module Solar Energy, Vol.77, No.6, pp 939–949 414 SolarCells – New Aspects and Solutions Yan, B.; Yue, G.; Xu, X.; Yang, J.; and Guha, S (2010) ... Realization of high efficiency micromorph tandem silicon solarcells 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 andSolar Cells, Vol 74, num 1-4, pp 457467 Meillaud, F; Feltrin,...
... efficient organic thin- filmSolarCells 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...