Integration of Solar Cells on Top of CMOS Chips Part I: a-Si Solar Cells

Solar Cells on CMOS Chips As Energy Harvesters — Integration and CMOS Compatibility

Statistical analyses on Si microwire solar cells

In this data, the statistical analyses of silicon microwire (SiMW) solar cells are presented for the research article entitled "Electrical and optical properties of Si microwire solar cells" (H.-S. Kim, D. B. Patel, H. Kim, M. Patel, K. R. Chauhan, W. Park, and J. Kim) [1]. This article shows the statistical analyses on performances of the various SiMW solar cells. The accuracy of solar cell pa...

Efficiency Enhancement of Si Solar Cells by Using Nanostructured Single and Double Layer Anti-Reflective Coatings

The effect of single and double-layer anti-reflective coatings on efficiency enhancement of silicon solar cells was investigated. The reflectance of different anti-reflection structures were calculated using the transfer matrix method and then to predict the performance of solar cells coated by these structures, the weighted average reflectance curves were used as an input of a PC1D simulation....

Flexible micromorph tandem a-Si/ c-Si solar cells

The deposition of a stack of amorphous a-Si:H and microcrystalline c-Si:H tandem thin film silicon solar cells micromorph requires at least twice the time used for a single junction a-Si:H cell. However, micromorph devices have a higher potential efficiency, thanks to the broader absorption spectrum of c-Si:H material. High efficiencies can only be achieved by mitigating the nanocracks in the c...

a-Si/c-Si1-xGex/c-Si Heterojunction Solar Cells

The performance and material quality requirements of thin film a-Si/c-Si1-xGex/Si heterojunction solar cells are investigated by modeling and simulation. The effects of Ge content, Si1-xGex thickness, Si1-xGex lifetime and a-Si/c-Si1-xGex interfacial quality have been studied. The simulations predict that Si1-xGex based thin film solar cells provide a significant increase in solar cell output c...