A comprehensive review on current performance, challenges and progress in thin-film solar cells

S Sivaraj, R Rathanasamy, GV Kaliyannan, H Panchal… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the recent surge in silicon demand for solar modules, thin-film photovoltaic (PV)
modules have a potential to penetrate the market in significant numbers. As an alternate …

Design and simulation of a‐Si: h/PbS colloidal quantum dots monolithic tandem solar cell for 12% efficiency

S Kashyap, R Pandey, J Madan… - physica status solidi …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tandem solar cells (TSC) is the most promising photovoltaic technology, as it efficiently
overcomes the thermalization and nonabsorption losses. In this context, thin‐film/colloidal …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells with p-type silicon carbon window layer

CH Hsu, XY Zhang, MJ Zhao, HJ Lin, WZ Zhu, SY Lien - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Boron-doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC: H) thin films are deposited
using high frequency 27.12 MHz plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system as a …

Simulating the role of TCO materials, their surface texturing and band gap of amorphous silicon layers on the efficiency of amorphous silicon thin film solar cells

M Sharma, D Chaudhary, N Dwivedi, S Sudhakar… - Silicon, 2017 - Springer
In this work, through modeling we propose how the choice of the TCO material, its texturing
and optimization of band gap of a-Si: H layers help to increase the efficiency of a-Si: H solar …

Proposal of CIGS dual-junction solar cell and investigation of different metal grids effect

M Hedayati, S Olyaee - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2020 - Springer
In this report, four different metallic grid connectivity models, namely graphene, aluminum,
gold, and silver for the copper gallium diselenide/copper indium gallium diselenide …

Performance of Si-based solar cell utilizing optimized Al-doped ZnO films as TCO layer

A Altuntepe, S Erkan, O Hasret, A Yagmyrov… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) is one of the most popular transparent conducting oxide
layers that can be employed in many optoelectronic applications in particular in photovoltaic …

Facile fabrication of wafer-scale, micro-spacing and high-aspect-ratio silicon microwire arrays

J Yan, S Wu, X Zhai, X Gao, X Li - Rsc Advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
One dimensional micro-/nanostructures of semiconductors are attracting increasing attention
due to their large specific surface area, their high aspect ratio and their unique …

Do**-free silicon thin film solar cells using a vanadium pentoxide window layer and a LiF/Al back electrode

HH Jung, JD Kwon, S Lee, C Su Kim, KS Nam… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This work describes the preparation of a doped layer-free hydrogenated amorphous silicon
(a-Si: H) thin film solar cell consisting of a vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5-x) window layer, an …

Optical transmission of p-Type a-Si: H thin film deposited by PECVD on ITO-coated glass

S Prayogi, MA Baqiya, Y Cahyono… - Materials Science …, 2019 - Trans Tech Publ
A p-type thin film of hydrogenated amporphous silicon (a-Si: H) has successfully been
fabricated by radio frequency-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RF-PECVD) …

Substrate and p-layer effects on polymorphous silicon solar cells

SN Abolmasov, H Woo, R Planques, J Holovský… - EPJ Photovoltaics, 2014 - epj-pv.org
The influence of textured transparent conducting oxide (TCO) substrate and p-layer on the
performance of single-junction hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si: H) solar cells …