The tandem structure provides a practical way to realize high-efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). It overcomes several bottlenecks in single-junction OSCs such as thermalization loss, transmission and inefficient light absorption. In OSCs, the interconnecting layer (ICL) electrically connects two subcells it plays critical role determining device performance reproducibility. this review pape...

Tandem solar cells have a superb potential to push the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of photovoltaic technologies. They can be also more stable and economical. In this simulation work, an efficient perovskite cell (PSC) with Spiro-OMeTAD as hole transport material (HTM) no electron (ETM) replace traditional PSC structure is presented. This then used top sub together copper indium gallium su...

The Harris group proposed to develop significantly higher efficiency thin film multi-junction solar cells by combining multi-junctions and advanced nano-scale light management concepts in ultra-thin film devices that lend themselves to very large scale, low cost manufacturing. In the past year, they developed thin-film nanostructured solar cell modeling, epitaxial growth and fabrication. A nano...

We demonstrate numerically a 2-D nanostructured design for light trapping in a low band-gap polymer solar cell. Finite element method simulations are used to study the effect of varying nanostructure periodicity, height, and shape on active layer absorption. Maintaining a constant active layer thickness of 100 nm we observe an enhancement in solar absorption of almost 40% relative to a planar c...

An electroluminescence microscopy combined with a spectroscopy was developed to visually analyze multi-junction solar cells. Triple-junction solar cells with different conversion efficiencies were characterized by using this system. The results showed that the mechanical damages and material defects in solar cells can be clearly distinguished, indicating a high-resolution imaging. The external ...

LP-CVD ZnO has been developed at IMT as front TCO for amorphous silicon p-i-n single-junction and “micromorph” (microcrystalline/amorphous silicon) tandem solar cells. In comparison with SnO2 (Asahi type U), ZnO demonstrates superior light-trapping behaviour. Applying the monolithic series connection by laser-scribing, both for amorphous single-junction and micromorph tandem cells, modules have...