Band-Gap Tuning Induced by Germanium Introduction in Solution …
In the last few decades, the attention of scientific community has been driven toward the research on renewable energies. In particular, the photovoltaic (PV) thin-film technology has been widely explored to provide suitable candidates as top cells for tandem architectures, with the purpose of enhancing current PV efficiencies. One of the most studied …
Amorphous silicon–germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin-film ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOLMAT.2014.11.006 Corpus ID: 96873500; Amorphous silicon–germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin-film silicon based solar cells @article{Schttauf2015AmorphousSF, title={Amorphous silicon–germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin-film silicon based solar cells}, author={Jan‐Willem Sch{"u}ttauf and …
Back contacts materials used in thin film CdTe solar cells—A …
1 INTRODUCTION. Photovoltaics (PV) using thin film CdTe as a photon absorber have been studied for several decades. CdTe was long recognized for its potential to surpass the conversion efficiencies of conventional silicon solar cells based on bandgap matching to the Shockley Queisser limit. 1 However, progress was slow in reaching this protentional with …
Fabrication of amorphous silicon–germanium thin film solar cell …
Amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) alloys have widely been used as the absorption layer of the middle or/and bottom cells in multi-junction thin film solar cells. Their optical band gap (E g ) shifts to lower energies with increasing germanium content, which aims to make a suitable and narrow band gap a-SiGe material of the solar cells to ...
Optical enhancement by back reflector with ZnO:Al2O3(AZO) or …
Different composite films, including Al, Ag/NiCr/Al and Al 2 O 3-doped ZnO (AZO)/Ag/NiCr (AZO)/Al, were utilized as the back reflectors for p-i-n hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) thin film solar cells.The experimental results indicated that the AZO leyer between silicon layers and Ag/NiCr/Al back reflector was effect in improving solar cell …
Short-circuit current density and fill factor improvement by …
In this work, high efficiency p-i-n structure hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) thin film solar cells were prepared via optimizing hydrogenated indium oxide In2O3:H (IOH) and silver/chromium/aluminum (Ag/Cr/Al) back reflector (BR) layers. Layer wise films including Al, Ag/Cr/Al and IOH/Ag/Cr/Al BR materials were fabricated into solar cells …
Recent Progress in GeSe Thin-Film Solar Cells ※ | Request PDF
Germanium monoselenide (GeSe) is a promising photovoltaic absorber material for thin-film solar cells due to its appropriate bandgap (about 1.14 eV), high absorption coefficient (＞10⁵ cm－1 ...
INTERFACE ENGINEERING BY USING GERMANIUM CARBON …
The efficiency is enhanced by 7% for a-Si solar cell and the result is also successfully applied to the large area production of a-Si and a-Si/µc-Si modules. Keywords: TCO/p interface, Thin film solar cell, germanium carbon alloy. 1 INTRODUCTION Thin film
Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p
Mixed-phase hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiOx:H) is applied to thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) solar cells serving as both p-doped and n-doped layers. The …
A Comprehensive Survey of Silicon Thin-film Solar …
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of silicon thin-film solar cells for the most important enabling technologies in the upcoming solar cell. We were able to demonstrate that a thin-film solar cell may be applied in a …
Growth of Germanium Thin Films on Sapphire Using Molecular …
Germanium films were grown on c-plane sapphire with a 10 nm AlAs buffer layer using molecular beam epitaxy. The effects of Ge film thickness on the surface morphology and crystal structure were investigated using ex situ characterization techniques. The nucleation of Ge proceeds by forming (111) oriented three-dimensional islands with two rotational twin …
Fill factor improvement in PIN type hydrogenated amorphous …
Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p- and n-type hydrogenated silicon oxide layers. 2017, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. Show abstract. Mixed-phase hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiO x:H) is applied to thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) solar cells serving as both p-doped and n-doped layers.
Perovskite/germanium tandem: A potential high efficiency thin film ...
Perovskite absorbs from ultraviolet (UV) to ∼800 nm, and germanium covers to 1800 nm, the combination shows excellent match in terms of solar spectrum-splitting.The optical properties of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3−x Cl x perovskite and single-crystalline germanium (c-Ge) tandem solar cell on a special designed substrate with triangular grating are analyzed and discussed.
GeSe thin-film solar cells
Thin-film solar cells made from non-toxic and earth-abundant materials are needed to substitute the current best-developed absorbers such as cadmium …
Photovoltaic Technology: The Case for Thin-Film …
Amorphous silicon solar cells. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon was introduced as a material with a potential for semiconductor devices in the mid-1970s and is the first thin-film solar cell material that has reached the …
Amorphous silicon–germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin ...
We study amorphous silicon–germanium (a-SiGe:H) as intrinsic absorber material for thin-film silicon-based triple and quadruple junction solar cells. First, we present the development of a-SiGe:H single junction devices, in particular the Ge-content grading in the absorber layer, the influence of the Ge-content on electrical properties and (infra)red-response, …
Band-Gap Tuning Induced by Germanium Introduction …
In this framework, thin film solar cells based on Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and the related sulfur selenium alloy Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) were strongly investigated in the last 10 years.
Fabrication of amorphous silicon–germanium thin film solar cell ...
Amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) alloys have widely been used as the absorption layer of the middle or/and bottom cells in multi-junction thin film solar cells. Their …
GeSe Thin-Film Solar Cells Fabricated by Self-Regulated Rapid …
This preliminary efficiency and high stability, combined with the self-regulated RTS process (also extended to the fabrication of other binary IV-VI chalcogenide films, i.e., GeS), demonstrates …
Thin film solar cells based on microcrystalline silicon–germanium ...
Influence of alloy composition on carrier transport and solar cell properties of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon–germanium thin films Appl. Phys. Lett., 89 ( 2006 ), p. 142115
A direct correlation between film structure and solar cell efficiency ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.TSF.2009.01.073 Corpus ID: 93702891; A direct correlation between film structure and solar cell efficiency for HWCVD amorphous silicon germanium alloys @article{Mahan2009ADC, title={A direct correlation between film structure and solar cell efficiency for HWCVD amorphous silicon germanium alloys}, author={A. Harv Mahan and Y. Xu and Lynn …
Light management in hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium solar ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOLMAT.2014.05.008 Corpus ID: 96061816 Light management in hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium solar cells @article{Liu2014LightMI, title={Light management in hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium solar cells}, author={Bofei Liu and Lisha Bai and Xiaodang Zhang and Dekun Zhang and Changchun Wei and Jian Sun and Qian Huang and …
Low-Temperature Synthesis of Polycrystalline Semiconductor Thin Films ...
Researchers have grown polycrystalline germanium (poly-Ge) thin films on both glass and polymer substrates at temperatures as low as 200 C. Germanium thin films with micron-size grains and (111) preferred orientation were prepared by controlled Ge nucleation and Ge lateral overgrowth of Al during a-Ge crystallization.
Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOLMAT.2017.01.001 Corpus ID: 30692947; Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p- and n-type hydrogenated silicon oxide layers @article{Si2017ThinfilmAS, title={Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p- and n-type hydrogenated silicon oxide layers}, author={Fai Tong Si and Olindo Isabella and Miro …
Optimization of hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium thin films …
DOI: 10.1016/J.TSF.2015.05.055 Corpus ID: 59437339 Optimization of hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium thin films and solar cells deposited by hot wire chemical vapor deposition In order to form a SiGe thin …
A review on the optical properties of some germanium based
Chalcogenide materials are an important class of amorphous glassy semiconductors and attracted several researchers due to their practical applications in several fields like phase-change memories, photovoltaics, detectors, photonics, lasers, and optoelectronic devices, etc. Here in this review, we have mainly focused on germanium-based chalcogenide …
Optical enhancement by back reflector with ZnO:Al2O3(AZO) or …
The optimized IHFO film was then applied to amorphous silicon germanium thin film solar cells as the contacting layer. Compared to the cell without such a layer, the efficiency was higher by 0.35%.
Recent Progress in GeSe Thin-Film Solar Cells ※ | Request PDF
Germanium monoselenide (GeSe) is a promising photovoltaic absorber material for thin-film solar cells due to its appropriate bandgap (about 1.14 eV), high absorption coefficient ...
A direct correlation between film structure and solar cell efficiency ...
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "A direct correlation between film structure and solar cell efficiency for HWCVD amorphous silicon germanium alloys" by A. Mahan et al. DOI: 10.1016/J.TSF.2009.01.073 Corpus ID: 93702891 A direct correlation between film ...
Microcrystalline Silicon-Germanium Alloys for Absorption Layers in Thin ...
Thin microcrystalline silicon-germanium films (μ-Si l.x Ge x:H) prepared by PECVD at 95 MHz have been investigated.The optical absorption of these films increases in the infrared spectral region with increasing germanium content.
Improvement of hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium thin film solar ...
1. Introduction Thin film silicon solar cells have received much attention due to their inherent advantages such as low-cost large-area manufacturing. In spite of that, its low efficiency is still a challenge that needs to be overcome. Numerous efforts have been ...
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Although less efficient than the silicon solar cells (Wilson et al. 2020), thin film solar cells based on CdTe (Chander, Dea, and Dhaka 2018;Chander and Dhaka 2019), GeSe (Liu et al. 2020) and TiO ...
Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p
Mixed-phase hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiO x:H) is applied to thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) solar cells serving as both p-doped …
Comprehensive Review on Thin Film Homojunction Solar Cells
With the aim of achieving high efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of solar cells, several technologies have been studied. Recently, emerging materials have appeared to replace Si-based cells, seeking economic fabrication of solar cells. Thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) are considered strong candidates for this mission, specifically perovskite-based solar cells, …
Thin-film amorphous silicon germanium solar cells with p
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe:H) is a meaningful building block in multi-junction thin-film silicon-based solar cells. Its electronic bandgap decreases as the Ge content increases in the matrix [1], [2], [3].As an absorber material, a-SiGe:H offers ...
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