A new device called “Solant” (for SOLar cell – ANTenna) is presented in this paper. It is a combination of thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells and flat printed antennas. A proton irradiation campaign has also been carried out on a series of n-i-p amorphous and p-i-n micromorph [microcrystalline (μc-Si:H) and amorphous (a-Si:H)] silicon tandem solar cells. The effect of thermal annealing on ...

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 two-dimensional conjugated small molecule (SMPV1) was designed and synthesized for high performance solution-processed organic solar cells. This study explores the photovoltaic properties of this molecule as a donor, with a fullerene derivative as an acceptor, using solution processing in single junction and double junction tandem solar cells. The single junction solar cells based on SMPV1 ex...

The realization of a complete tandem polymer solar cell under ambient conditions using only printing and coating methods on a flexible substrate comprises a fully scalable

Kesterite Cu2ZnSn(SxSe1−x)4 has tunable band-gap values in the range 1 to 1.5 eV depending upon Sulphur/Selenium stoichiometry. We analyze proposed tandem configuration of kesterite absorber family using SCAPS-1D for device performance. Pure sulphide Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) bandgap is utilized as top cell and a sulpho-selenide (CZTSSe) 1.1 bottom stacked configuration. utilize script file capability S...

Solar-assisted water electrolysis is a promising technology for storing the energy of incident solar irradiation into hydrogen as fuel. Here, an integrated continuous flow electrochemical reactor coupled to monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem cell demonstrated that provides light-driven solar-to-hydrogen conversion with efficiency exceeding 21% at 1-Sun equivalent light intensity and stable op...

During the last two decades, the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT) has contributed in two important fields to future thin-film silicon solar cell processing and design: (1) In 1987, IMT introduced the so-called ‘‘very high frequency glow discharge (VHF-GD)’’ technique, a method that leads to a considerable enhancement in the deposition rate of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon layers. As ...

In this paper, polymer solar cells with a tandem structure were investigated and optimized using a multiscale simulation scheme. In the proposed multiscale simulation, multiple aspects - optical calculation, mesoscale simulation, device scale simulation and optimal power conversion efficiency searching modules - were studied together to give an optimal result. Through the simulation work, depen...

Semi-transparent organic photovoltaics are of interest for a variety of photovoltaic applications, including solar windows and hybrid tandem photovoltaics. The figure shows a photograph of our semi-transparent solar cell, which has a power conversion efficiency of 5.0%, with an above bandgap transmission of 34% and a sub-bandgap transmission of 81%.