Accounting for all possible short circuits in a direct current circuit can prove to be an arduous process. To avoid unintended operation and circuit damage, short circuit protection may be implemented via hardware or software. This paper views the short circuit detection problem as a hardware-software codesign problem in which an inductor installed in a DC circuit is designed alongside a microc...

The stoichiometry and hydrogen content of hot-wire (HW)-grown silicon nitride was examined as a function of SiH yNH 4 3 flow ratio. The effect of post-deposition hydrogenation treatment on overall film hydrogen content was determined. The hydrogen release properties in Si-rich and N-rich nitride layers were characterized by annealing treatments. Defect hydrogenation was studied using Fourier tr...

Photoelectrochemical cells (PECs), composed of different epitaxial n-Si photoanodes coated with evaporated metal film of Ni, Pt, Ni/Pt and immersed in solution with redox couple Br2 /Br or Fe(NC)g~7Fe(CN)£~ were investigated. The open circuit photovoltage and short circuit current density of these PECs under optimum conditions by illuminating with a bromine-tungsten lamp (65 mW/cm), are 0.494 V...

We demonstrate an InP heterojunction solar cell employing an ultrathin layer (∼10 nm) of amorphous TiO2 deposited at 120 °C by atomic layer deposition as the transparent electron-selective contact. The TiO2 film selectively extracts minority electrons from the conduction band of p-type InP while blocking the majority holes due to the large valence band offset, enabling a high maximum open-circu...

The article comprises numerical data of distinct semiconductor materials applied in the sketch of a CdTe absorber based ultrathin film solar cell. Additionally, the contact layer parametric values of the cell have been described also. Therefore, the simulation has been conducted with data related to the hetero-structured (n-ZnO/n-CdS/p-CdTe/p-ZnTe) semiconductor device and a J-V characteristics...

Amorphous silicon p-i-n solar cells were deposited on “in house” developed LP-CVD zinc oxide and compared with commercially available SnOa (Asahi type U2) substrates. While for both front TCO materials comparably high values of the open circuit voltage (860900 mV) and of the fill factor (72 74 %) were obtained, a remarkable enhancement of the short-circuit current density could be observed for ...

This study carefully examines carrier dynamics in highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on a series of recently developed dicarboxyterpyridine Ru(II) dyes (PRT-11-15). Comprehensive spectral response analyses, transient photovoltage and photocurrent measurements, and transient absorption techniques are exploited to investigate the effects of various functionalized terpyridin...

We demonstrate a new solution-processed electron transport layer (ETL), zinc oxide doped with cesium carbonate (ZnO:Cs2CO3), for achieving organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with good operational stability at ambient air. An OPV employing the ZnO:Cs2CO3 ETL exhibits a fill factor of 62%, an open circuit voltage of 0.90 V, and a short circuit current density of -6.14 mA/cm(2) along with 3.43% power co...

In this work, lead phthalocyanine (PbPc) and ZnO/InN inorganic semiconductor films prepared by oblique-angle deposition (OAD) were layered to form heterojunction organic/inorganic hybrid photovoltaic solar cells. Among the available organic materials, phthalocyanines, particularly the non-planar ones such as PbPc, are notable for their absorption in the visible and near infrared regions. The or...

As a novel two-dimensional (2D) material, graphene shows great benefits in electric and material science. Compared to 1D nanomaterials, it may show more excellent properties. Here, we introduced graphene as 2D bridges into the nanocrystalline electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells, which brought a faster electron transport and a lower recombination, together with a higher light scattering. On...