Plasma Textured Glass Surface Morphologies for Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells-A review

Hussain, Shahzada Qamar; Balaji, Nagarajan; Kim, Sunbo; Raja, ayapal; Ahn, Shihyun; Park, Hyeongsik; Le, Anh Huy Tuan; Kang, Junyoung; Yi, Junsin; Razaq, Aamir

doi:10.4313/teem.2016.17.2.98

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“…To make solar devices cost effective, thin film solar cells have been developed as promising alternatives to crystalline Si devices due to their low consumption of materials and easy installation, such as CuInGaSe, CdTe and a-Si devices as well as perovskite solar cells (PSCs). [1][2][3] However, CuInGaSe solar cells are limited by materials and complicated fabrication process while CdTe devices suffer from toxicity issues. Amorphous Si thin film solar cells exhibit much lower efficiency.…”

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Performance Improvement of Perovskite Solar Cells by Interactions between Nano‐Sized Quantum Dots and Perovskite

Chi

Banerjee

2022

Adv Funct Materials

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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have undergone rapid progress and attracted considerable attention as a promising alternative to conventional photovoltaics but currently still face the challenges of Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit and stability. Herein, the use of quantum dots (QDs) for the advancement of PSCs is focused on. The interactions between QDs and perovskite are discussed in terms of energy and charge transfer. The effective strategies for performance improvement of devices treated with QDs are interpreted from the point of view of surface modification (passivation and mixing), and microstructure (buffer function) and nanostructure (core/shell structure). In particular, possible routes to success in surpassing the SQ limit are summarized in association with the corresponding mechanisms. Also, the mechanisms for the enhancement of stability by QD treatment are analyzed, including quantum confinement effect, crystallization, ion migration inhibition, hydrophobicity improvement, passivation, and decomposition suppression. In addition, application of QDs to charge transporting layers is introduced and the resultant changes in device performance and stability are pointed out. The insights gained from this review are very crucial for the further advancement of PSCs treated with QDs.

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Performance Improvement of Perovskite Solar Cells by Interactions between Nano‐Sized Quantum Dots and Perovskite

Chi

Banerjee

2022

Adv Funct Materials

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“…Recently light-trapping structures have been utilized in different ways to increase the absorption of plasmonic solar cells. Several structures including surface texturing [4][5][6], anti-reflection coatings [7,8], photonic crystals [9], nanogratings [10,11], and metallic nanoparticles [12][13] have been presented to enhance the absorption of plasmonic solar cells. Solar cells are generally classified into four generations [14][15][16][17][18].…”

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Directing the Absorption Peaks of Plasmoinc Solar Cell

Khalaf

Gaballa

2022

Journal of Advanced Engineering Trends

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In this paper, a plasmonic solar cell using silver nanoparticles is presented. The unit cell structure composes of two layers, each containing a silver nanoparticle deposited on the absorber layer and covered with an indium tin oxide layer. Nanoparticle structure has been used for light-trapping to increase the absorption of plasmonic solar cells. By various light trapping techniques, light can be concentrated in a thin absorber layer. As it will be clarified, through varying the geometry of these nanoparticle structures, the absorption peaks can be directed. All simulation data are obtained using the finite element method. The proposed model achieves two absorption peaks existing at 1.07 μm and 1.17 μm, each with absorptions of around 50%. The parameters of optimized performance have been specified. The results indicate that this model shows an absorption full width at half maximum, reaching 122 nm. Moreover, it can be noticed that the absorption peak can be increased to reach 0.5. The proposed structure has potential applications in the absorption of the infra-red part of the solar spectrum.

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“…Texture 3 has the highest diffusion criterion (CD = 59.2 %) and the lower semi-transparency property (CST = 86.7 %). This texture with high diffuse transmission is mainly used for scattering incident solar light into the solar cell in order to increase the optical path of the photons[30][31][32]. Texture 2 is an intermediate texture between Texture 1 and 3: it combined both enhancements with a CST of 93.3 % and a CD of 3.2 %.…”

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Optical optimization of semi-transparent a-Si:H solar cells for photobioreactor application

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To improve the overall photoconversion efficiency and provide energy support for microalgae culture, we propose to develop a photobioreactor (PBR) and 2 photovoltaic technology (PV) coupled system using a-Si:H solar cells directly placed on the PBR's illuminated surface. PV cells have to absorb a part of the incident light to produce electricity while being transparent in the photosynthesis wavelength range. Growing test of Phaeodactylum Tricornutum shows that PV optical filtering does not influence the growth rate. Optical modifications of solar cells layers thicknesses and reactive ion etching of the glass substrate applied to very thin solar cells allowed to maintain a high PV efficiency while maintaining the growth rate of microalgae. The antireflection texture, combined with a light scattering effect applied on the upper side of the substrate gives the best results. Short circuit current of thin solar cells goes from 7.3 to 10.2 mA/cm 2 , and the efficiency increased from 3.5 to 4.7 %.

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Plasma Textured Glass Surface Morphologies for Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells-A review

Cited by 14 publications

References 65 publications

Performance Improvement of Perovskite Solar Cells by Interactions between Nano‐Sized Quantum Dots and Perovskite

Performance Improvement of Perovskite Solar Cells by Interactions between Nano‐Sized Quantum Dots and Perovskite

Directing the Absorption Peaks of Plasmoinc Solar Cell

Optical optimization of semi-transparent a-Si:H solar cells for photobioreactor application

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