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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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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author Basch, Angelika
Beck, Fiona
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description 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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spelling pubmed-45389792015-08-21 Enhanced light trapping in solar cells using snow globe coating Basch, Angelika Beck, Fiona Söderström, Thomas Varlamov, Sergey Catchpole, Kylie R Prog Photovolt Accelerated Publications 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. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2012-11 2012-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4538979/ /pubmed/26300618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2240 Text en Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation.
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