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Morteza Eslamian
The capability to fabricate photovoltaic (PV) solar cells on a large scale and at a competitive price is a milestone waiting to be achieved. Currently, such a fabrication method is lacking because the effective methods are either difficult to scale up or...
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Morteza Eslamian and Joshua E. Newton
PEDOT:PSS electron-blocking layer, and PEDOT:PSS + P3HT:PCBM stacked layers are fabricated by ultrasonic atomization and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and optical profilometry. The measured thicknesses based on SEM and optical profi...
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Eugenia Bobeico, Lucia V. Mercaldo, Pasquale Morvillo, Iurie Usatii, Marco Della Noce, Laura Lancellotti, Carmen Sasso, Rosa Ricciardi and Paola Delli Veneri
Substoichiometric molybdenum oxide (MoOx) has good potential as a hole-collecting layer in solar cells. In this paper, we report on the application of ultrathin evaporated MoOx as a hole collector at the back side of two distinct photovoltaic technologie...
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I. M. Dharmadasa, P. A. Bingham, O. K. Echendu, H. I. Salim, T. Druffel, R. Dharmadasa, G. U. Sumanasekera, R. R. Dharmasena, M. B. Dergacheva, K. A. Mit, K. A. Urazov, L. Bowen, M. Walls and A. Abbas
Thin film solar cells based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) are complex devices which have great potential for achieving high conversion efficiencies. Lack of understanding in materials issues and device physics slows down the rapid progress of these devices...
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May Zin Toe, Wai Kian Tan, Hiroyuki Muto, Go Kawamura, Atsunori Matsuda and Swee-Yong Pung
As compared to other deposition techniques such as atomic layer deposition, chemical vapour deposition and sputtering, aerosol deposition (AD) is a simple and cost-effective technique to produce ZnO thin films. In this work, the effect of deposition cycl...
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Leo Peiffer, Christian Perfler and Martin Tajmar
Consumable-free electron emitters are presently not feasible for autonomous tether-based deorbit devices such as E.T.PACK due to their power requirement. The bare-photovoltaic-tether (BPT) concept combines the bare tether electron collection with a tethe...
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Ziyou Zhou, Wenfeng Liu, Hailong Huang, Xiaolong Ding and Xintian Li
In this paper, the solar absorption level of PEDOT:PSS/Ge organic and inorganic hybrid solar cells (HSCs) with different parameters of cruciform microstructure (CM) is studied, using the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method. The light absorption i...
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Borhan Albiss and Mohammad Al-Widyan
This study presents the numerical simulation, optimization, preparation, and characterization of Cu(In, Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells (TFSCs). Different cell parameters were investigated, including Ga/(Ga+In) (GGI) ratios, the thicknesses of CIGS a...
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Jessica Barichello, Sara Gullace, Alberto Cusimano, Gaetano Di Marco, Fabio Matteocci and Giuseppe Calogero
An investigation on the photoelectrochemical and sensitizing properties of two different hybrid organic dyes, anchored as sensitizers on mesoporous TiO2, in Grätzel solar cells, is presented. Firstly, we studied the absorption properties of the C106 sens...
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Ahmed Hayali, Roger J. Reeves and Maan M. Alkaisi
The efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) depend not only on the perovskite film quality, but they are also influenced by the charge carriers of both the electron and hole transport layers (ETL and HTL). Doping of the carrier transpor...
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Zhenhuang Su, Chenyue Wang, Guanhaojie Zheng and Xingyu Gao
Blending perovskite with different cations has been successful in improving performance of perovskite solar cells, but the complex pathway of perovskite crystal formation remains a mystery, hindering its further development. In this paper, the detailed c...
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Luana Mazzarella, Anna B. Morales-Vilches, Lars Korte, Rutger Schlatmann and Bernd Stannowski
Doped hydrogenated nanocrystalline (nc-Si:H) and silicon oxide (nc-SiOx:H) materials grown by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition have favourable optoelectronic properties originated from their two-phase structure. This unique combination of qualit...
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Deb Kumar Shah, Devendra KC, M. Shaheer Akhtar, Chong Yeal Kim and O-Bong Yang
This paper describes the unique antireflection (AR) layer of vertically arranged ZnO nanorods (NRs) on crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells and studies the charge transport and photovoltaic properties by simulation. The vertically arranged ZnO NRs were...
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Rui-Wei You, Yen-Pei Fu
Pág. 95 - 98
In this study, ZnS thin films were successfully synthesized by chemical bath deposition (CBD) with starting materials of NH2-NH2, SC(NH2)2, and ZnSO4?7H2O. ZnS thin films were deposited with different time on glass substrates by CBD at 80oC and pH=9. Bas...
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Esteban Zalamea León,Cristian Cuevas Barraza
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The use of photovoltaic (PV) technology in urban areas is an appropriate way to optimize the use of solar energy, since the energy conversion system is located in the same place as the demand. Thus, the losses caused by distribution networks and even tec...
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Haili Zhao, Jingpei Xie and Aixia Mao
Most of the molybdenum (Mo) bilayer films are deposited by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering at the bottom and the top layer (DC/DC). However, the deposition of Mo bilayer film by radio frequency (RF) Mo bottom layer and DC Mo top layer magnetron ...
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Kaiying Luo, Wanhua Wu, Sihang Xie, Yasi Jiang, Shengzu Liao and Donghuan Qin
The use of solution-processed photovoltaics is a low cost, low material-consuming way to harvest abundant solar energy. Organic semiconductors based on perovskite or colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics have been well developed in recent years; however, s...
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Tanzila Tasnim Ava, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sylvain Marsillac and Gon Namkoong
Perovskite solar cells have achieved photo-conversion efficiencies greater than 20%, making them a promising candidate as an emerging solar cell technology. While perovskite solar cells are expected to eventually compete with existing silicon-based solar...
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Arjaan Kooijman, Loreta A. Muscarella and René M. Williams
Doping lead perovskite materials with a few percent of zinc-halides increases their stability at ambient conditions, enhances their properties and improves the efficiency of the corresponding solar cell devices.
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Tom Grace, Hong Duc Pham, Christopher T. Gibson, Joseph G. Shapter and Prashant Sonar
The search for novel solar cell designs as an alternative to standard silicon solar cells is important for the future of renewable energy production. One such alternative design is the carbon nanotube/silicon (CNT/Si) heterojunction solar device. In orde...
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