Abstract Plasma-induced defects are often recognized in state-of-the-art semiconductors, high-efficiency solar cells and high-sensitivity image sensors. These the form of a dangling bond, bond deformation, or impurity/residual, which impacts on device performance reliability. The introduced via plasma-material interactions during manufacturing processes such as deposition, etching implantation....

the effect of evaporation rate on structural, morphological and optical properties of electron beam evaporated cds thin films have been investigated. cds thin film deposited by electron beam evaporation method in 12nm/min and 60nm/min evaporation rates on glass substrates. x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, uv-vis-nir spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy were used to character...

dye sensitized solar cell was fabricated from a double layer photoanode. first, tio2 nanoparticles  were synthesized by hydrothermal method. these tio2 nps were deposited on fto glasses by electrophoretic deposition  method in applied voltage of 5 v and epd time of 2.5-10 min. then tio2 hollow spheres (hss) were synthesized by sacrificed template method with carbon spheres as template and ttip ...

As an alternative to single crystal silicon photovoltaics, thin film solar cells have been extensively explored for miniaturized cost-effective photovoltaic systems. Though the fight to gain efficiency has been severely engaged over the years, the battle is not yet over. In this review, we comb the fields to elucidate the strategies towards high efficiency thin films solar cells and provide poi...

In this article, the effect of plasmonic properties of metal nanoparticles with different shapes, and moreover, their plasmonic-photonic interaction, on solar cell performance were investigated and simulated. Because of low conversion efficiency and then high cost of solar cells, it is difficult to commercialize and replace them with conventional energy resources. But in recent years, the plasm...

The performance of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells is severely affected by the lightinduced formation of metastable defects in the material (Staebler-Wronski effect). The common notion is that the dangling-bond (db) defect, a threefold coordinated silicon atom, plays a key role in the underlying mechanisms. To support the characterization of this defect by electron paramagne...

design and optimization of a single crystalline silicon (c-si) solar cell is performed to achieve the maximum light conversion efficiency. various parameters such as doping concentration and thicknesses, and geometrical dimension of surface pyramids are studied. the inverted surface pyramid is used to increase the efficiency of the solar cell, and engineered oxide layer is used as the passivati...

Nowadays, the multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells dominate the photovoltaic industry. However, the current acid etching method on mc-Si surface used by firms can hardly suppress the average reflectance value below 25% in the visible light spectrum. Meanwhile, the nitric acid and the hydrofluoric contained in the etching solution is both environmental unfriendly and highly toxic to hum...

Within this chapter, the principles of numerical solar cell simulation are described, using AFORS-HET (automat for simulation of heterostructures). AFORS-HET is a one dimensional numerical computer program for modelling multi layer homoor heterojunction solar cells as well as some common solar cell characterization methods. Solar cell simulation subdivides into two parts: optical and electrical...

Abstract In this work a technique to monitor the health state of space adhesives during environmental testing is presented. Specifically, minimally intrusive Tilted Fibre Bragg Grating (TFBG) sensor was embedded in silicone adhesive Nusil CV16-2500 used bond two thin cover glasses. The resulting solar cell assembly then exposed UV/VUV radiation high vacuum chamber (less than 10 -5 mbar). demons...