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Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology

Herein, a novel strategy to fabricate haze films employing liquid crystal (LC) technology for photovoltaic (PV) applications is reported. We fabricated a high optical haze film composed of low-molecular LCs and polymer and applied the film to improve the energy conversion efficiency of PV module. Th...

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Autores principales: Bae, Jae-Hyun, Jung, Eui Dae, Nam, Yun Seok, Kim, Byeong-Cheon, Choi, Hyeon-Joon, Kim, Hyun Gi, Song, Myoung Hoon, Choi, Suk-Won
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30400607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11112188
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author Bae, Jae-Hyun
Jung, Eui Dae
Nam, Yun Seok
Kim, Byeong-Cheon
Choi, Hyeon-Joon
Kim, Hyun Gi
Song, Myoung Hoon
Choi, Suk-Won
author_facet Bae, Jae-Hyun
Jung, Eui Dae
Nam, Yun Seok
Kim, Byeong-Cheon
Choi, Hyeon-Joon
Kim, Hyun Gi
Song, Myoung Hoon
Choi, Suk-Won
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description Herein, a novel strategy to fabricate haze films employing liquid crystal (LC) technology for photovoltaic (PV) applications is reported. We fabricated a high optical haze film composed of low-molecular LCs and polymer and applied the film to improve the energy conversion efficiency of PV module. The technique utilized to fabricate our haze film is based on spontaneous polymerization-induced phase separation between LCs and polymers. With optimized fabrication conditions, the haze film exhibited an optical haze value over 95% at 550 nm. By simply attaching our haze film onto the front surface of a silicon-based PV module, an overall average enhancement of 2.8% in power conversion efficiency was achieved in comparison with a PV module without our haze film.
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spelling pubmed-62672172018-12-17 Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology Bae, Jae-Hyun Jung, Eui Dae Nam, Yun Seok Kim, Byeong-Cheon Choi, Hyeon-Joon Kim, Hyun Gi Song, Myoung Hoon Choi, Suk-Won Materials (Basel) Article Herein, a novel strategy to fabricate haze films employing liquid crystal (LC) technology for photovoltaic (PV) applications is reported. We fabricated a high optical haze film composed of low-molecular LCs and polymer and applied the film to improve the energy conversion efficiency of PV module. The technique utilized to fabricate our haze film is based on spontaneous polymerization-induced phase separation between LCs and polymers. With optimized fabrication conditions, the haze film exhibited an optical haze value over 95% at 550 nm. By simply attaching our haze film onto the front surface of a silicon-based PV module, an overall average enhancement of 2.8% in power conversion efficiency was achieved in comparison with a PV module without our haze film. MDPI 2018-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6267217/ /pubmed/30400607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11112188 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bae, Jae-Hyun
Jung, Eui Dae
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Kim, Byeong-Cheon
Choi, Hyeon-Joon
Kim, Hyun Gi
Song, Myoung Hoon
Choi, Suk-Won
Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title_full Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title_fullStr Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title_full_unstemmed Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title_short Micro-Segregated Liquid Crystal Haze Films for Photovoltaic Applications: A Novel Strategy to Fabricate Haze Films Employing Liquid Crystal Technology
title_sort micro-segregated liquid crystal haze films for photovoltaic applications: a novel strategy to fabricate haze films employing liquid crystal technology
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30400607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11112188
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