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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Thin Film Photovoltaics"”.
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Scalable Perovskite Thin-Film Photovoltaics
In recent years lead halide based thin-film perovskites have emerged as a promising direct bandgap semiconductor for light absorption and emission applications. This is in part due to their compositional tunability and potential alloying that allows their color to be tuned from the near-IR through …
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Processing of Thin Film Photovoltaics from Chalcogenide Nanoparticles
… a global imperative to avoid future catastrophe. Photovoltaics (PV) are an ideal resource that allows us to convert our greatest supply of energy, sunlight, directly into our greatest source of energy consumption, electricity.
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Self-assembled Plasmonic Nanostructures for Thin Film Photovoltaics
… (NPs) for the light trapping application in thin lm photovoltaics (PV). Photovoltaics is able provide safe and clean electricity of the future, inparticular, thin lms solar cells have a potential to increase the competitiveness of PV through a substantial reduction of the manufacturing cost. …
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Technology Agnostic Analysis and Design for Improved Performance, Variability, and Reliability in Thin Film Photovoltaics
<p>Thin film photovoltaics (TFPV) offer low cost alternatives to conventional crystalline Silicon (c-Si) PV, and can enable novel applications of PV technology. Their large scale adoption however, requires significant improvements in process yield, and operational reliability. In order to address …
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Residual stresses and mechanical properties of thin film photovoltaic materials
… behavior of individual layers in inorganic thin film photovoltaics were investigated. The thin film photovoltaics consisted of an amorphous silicon (Si) p-n junction diode, a zinc oxide (ZnO) Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) layer (each 1μm thick), a Kapton® polyimide layer acting as the …
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Tracking and Exploiting Charge Carrier Movement and Photochemical Processes in Light-Harvesting Energy Materials
… are still needed to accelerate decarbonisation within the energy sector and beyond. Here, several novel material systems are studied to uncover physical properties which will dictate their suitability for use in state-of-the-art light-harvesting structures such as thin-film photovoltaics and …
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Evaluation of the commercial potential of organic photovoltaics
… in the record efficiencies achieved by organic photovoltaics. These have stimulated further interests and pursuit among the enthusiasts, in terms of both academic research and commercialization efforts. Indeed, organic photovoltaics offer a wide range of unique advantages, such as mechanical …
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Light-Matter Interactions in High-Efficiency Photovoltaics, Light-Emitting Devices, and Strongly Coupled Microcavities
… generation and consumption to manipulation. Within electricity generation, emerging thin film photovoltaics now rival traditional silicon-based solar cells in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE) due to dramatic improvements to optoelectronic material properties and device architectures. …
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Synthesis and Characterization of Chalcogenide Perovskites
… potential to deliver on the promise of low-cost thin film photovoltaics is reason enough to study chalcogenide perovskites. Additionally, their structural similarity to lead-halide and oxide perovskites offers a new opportunity to study related questions in those fields such as defect tolerance …
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Developing high efficiency Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin film solar cells by sputtering
… value as a new promising absorber material for thin film photovoltaics recently. It possesses the merits of earth abundant element constituent, facilitating its low-cost and large-scale production. Moreover, as a high bandgap material (Eg~1.5eV), CZTS is able to be combined with other …
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Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of Thin Film a-Si:H Solar Cell Fabrication by Multichamber Deposition in the n-i-p Substrate Configuration
… optimization and scale-up evaluation of thin film solar cells used in various photovoltaics technologies. These non-invasive optical probes employ multichannel spectral detection for high speed and provide high precision parameters that describe (i) thin film structure, such as layer …
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DFT calculations for cadmium telluride (CdTe)
Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin film photovoltaics (PV) has demonstrated low Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). CdTe technology also counted for half the thin film market in 2013 [3]. CdTe PV has the smallest carbon footprint a nd the energy payback time (less than one year) is the shortest of any …
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Systems for pervasive electronics and interfaces
… not networked to enable "Internet of Things" applications. This work describes the design and development of the EnHANT prototypes and testbed. The current prototypes use thin-film photovoltaics optimized for indoor light harvesting, form multihop networks using ultra-low-power …
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A study of the creation and characterization of nitrogen doped CuInSe2 (CIS:N), as a potential improved back contact material for CdTe and Cu(IN_xGA_1-x)Se2 photovoltaic cells
… used, technique. The growth characteristics, film morphology and electronic properties of these N doped materials, as it is affected by nitrogen, are studied, both in films grown with nitrogen, and in films implanted with nitrogen.