Enhanced light trapping in solar cells using snow globe coating

A novel method, snow globe coating, is found to show significant enhancement of the short circuit current J(SC) (35%) when applied as a scattering back reflector for polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells. The coating is formed from high refractive index titania particles without containing b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Basch, Angelika, Beck, Fiona, Söderström, Thomas, Varlamov, Sergey, Catchpole, Kylie R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2012
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Accelerated Publications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2240
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Sumario:A novel method, snow globe coating, is found to show significant enhancement of the short circuit current J(SC) (35%) when applied as a scattering back reflector for polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells. The coating is formed from high refractive index titania particles without containing binder and gives close to 100% reflectance for wavelengths above 400 nm. Snow globe coating is a physicochemical coating method executable in pH neutral media. The mild conditions of this process make this method applicable to many different types of solar cells. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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