Browsing by Keywords "Solar cells"
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Amyloid-like peptide nanofiber templated titania nanostructures as dye sensitized solar cell anodic materials
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)One-dimensional titania nanostructures can serve as a support for light absorbing molecules and result in an improvement in the short circuit current (Jsc) and open circuit voltage (Voc) as a nanostructured and high-surface-area ... -
Anatase TiO2 nanowires functionalized by organic sensitizers for solar cells: a screened Coulomb hybrid density functional study
(American Institute of Physics Inc., 2015)The adsorption of two different organic molecules cyanidin glucoside (C21O11H20) and TA-St-CA on anatase (101) and (001) nanowires has been investigated using the standard and the range separated hybrid density functional ... -
A baseball-bat-like CdTe/TiO2 nanorods-based heterojunction core–shell solar cell
(Elsevier, 2013)Rutile TiO2 nanorods on fluorine-doped thin oxide glass substrates via the hydrothermal technique were synthesized and decorated with a sputtered CdTe layer to fabricate a core-shell type n-TiO2/p-CdTe solar cell. Absorbance ... -
Comparative study of thin film n-i-p a-Si: H solar cells to investigate the effect of absorber layer thickness on the plasmonic enhancement using gold nanoparticles
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)In this paper, the effect of gold nanoparticles on n-i-p a-Si:H solar cells with different intrinsic layer (i-layer) thicknesses has been studied. 100nm and 500nm i-layer based n-i-p a-Si:H solar cells were fabricated and ... -
Complexing agent effect on the stoichiometric ratio of the electrochemically prepared CuInSe2 thin films
(Elsevier, 2007)The electrodeposition of CuInSe2 is investigated to improve the stoichiometric properties of CuInSe2 layers on indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass substrates and to develop one-step electrodeposition method for solar cell ... -
Effect of gold nanoparticles size on light scattering for thin film amorphous-silicon solar cells
(Elsevier Ltd, 2014-05)In this work, the effect of gold (Au) nanoparticles on the performance of a-Si:H solar cells is investigated experimentally. The solar cell stack is grown on a highly doped p-type Si wafer and consists of 20nm heavily doped ... -
Electron spectroscopic investigations of CdS and CdTe electrochemically coated on glass
(Springer, 1996)The electrodeposition of CdS and CdTe is investigated to improve the stoichiometric properties of CdS/CdTe layers on ITO-glass substrates for solar cell applications. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is utilized for the ... -
Enhanced light scattering with energy downshifting using 16 nm indium nitride nanoparticles for improved thin-film a-Si N-i-P solar cells
(Electrochemical Society Inc., 2015)In this work the effect of Indium nitride (InN) nanoparticles (NPs) on the performance of a-Si: H solar cells has been investigated. The average J<inf>sc</inf> of InN NPs coated cells was found 6.76 mA/cm2 which is 16.69% ... -
Examination of the temperature related structural defects of InGaN/GaN solar cells
(Academic Press, 2015)In this study the effects of the annealing temperature on the InGaN/GaN solar cells with different In-contents grown on sapphire substrate by the Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) are analyzed by High Resolution ... -
Improved efficiency of thin film a-Si:H solar cells with Au nanoparticles
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)In this work, the effect of Au nanoparticles on the performance of a-Si:H solar cells is investigated experimentally. Au nanoparticles of 10, 20, 50, 80, 100, 200 and 400 nm are spin coated on ITO before metallization. The ... -
Improving the efficiency enhancement of photonic crystal based InGaN solar cell by using a GaN Cap Layer
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)We studied a high indium content (0.8) InGaN based solar cell design where the active InGaN layer is sandwiched between a GaN cap layer and a GaN spacer layer. The incorporation of the sacrificial cap layer allows for the ... -
Indium rich InGaN solar cells grown by MOCVD
(Springer New York LLC, 2014)This study focuses on both epitaxial growths of InxGa 1-xN epilayers with graded In content, and the performance of solar cells structures grown on sapphire substrate by using metal organic chemical vapor deposition. The ... -
Influence of gold-silica nanoparticles on the performance of small-molecule bulk heterojunction solar cells
(Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2015)Light trapping by gold (Au)-silica nanospheres and nanorods embedded in the active layer of small-molecule (SM) organic solar cell has been systematically compared. Nanorod significantly outperforms nanosphere because of ... -
Lithium salt-nonionic surfactant lyotropic liquid crystalline gel-electrolytes with redox couple for dye sensitized solar cells
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)Lithium salt (LiCl, LiBr, LiI, or LiNO3) and a non-ionic surfactant (such as 10-lauryl ether, C12E10) form lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) mesophases in the presence of a small amount of water. The mesophases can be ... -
Nanosecond pulsed laser ablated sub-10 nm silicon nanoparticles for improving photovoltaic conversion efficiency of commercial solar cells
(Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd., 2017)In this paper, we demonstrate the enhancement of photovoltaic (PV) solar cell efficiency using luminescent silicon nanoparticles (Si-NPs). Sub-10 nm Si-NPs are synthesized via pulsed laser ablation technique. These ultra-small ... -
Nonradiative resonance energy transfer directed from colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dots to epitaxial InGaN/GaN quantum wells for solar cells
(Wiley, 2010-06-04)We report on Förster-type nonradiative resonance energy transfer (NRET) directed from colloidal quantum dots (QDs) to epitaxial quantum wells (QWs) with an efficiency of 69.6% at a rate of 1.527 ns-1 for potential application ... -
Observation of biexcitons in the presence of trions generated via sequential absorption of multiple photons in colloidal quantum dot solids
(2012)Multi exciton generation (MEG) and multi exciton recombination (MER) in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have recently attracted significant scientific interest as a possible means to improve device efficiencies [1-5]. ... -
Optimization of distyryl-Bodipy chromophores for efficient panchromatic sensitization in dye sensitized solar cells
(2011)Versatility of Bodipy (4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) dyes was further expanded in recent dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Here we report a series of derivatives designed to address earlier problems in ... -
Photonic metamaterial absorber designs for infrared solar-cell applications
(2010)We propose a metamaterial based absorber design that operates at the infrared regime. The absorption peak was 83.6%. We can incorporate solar-cell layers inside the metamaterial absorber in order to significantly increase ... -
Theoretical limits of the multistacked 1-D and 2-D microstructured inorganic solar cells
(SPIE, 2015)Recent studies in monocrystalline semiconductor solar cells are focused on mechanically stacking multiple cells from different materials to increase the power conversion efficiency. Although, the results show promising ...
