Improved stability against light exposure in amorphous deuterated silicon alloy solar cell

1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sugiyama ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
S. Guha
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Silicon Alloy ◽  
Improved Stability

Improved Stability Against Light-Exposure in Deuterated Amorphous Silicon Alloy Solar Cells

1997 ◽  
Vol 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sugiyama ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
S. Guha
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Silicon Alloy ◽  
Improved Stability ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Microstructure Of The Material ◽  
Hydrogen Effusion

ABSTRACTWe have studied light-induced degradation in hydrogenated and deuterated amorphous silicon alloy solar cells in which intrinsic layers were deposited by using SiH4+H2 and SiD4+D2 gas mixtures respectively. Replacing hydrogen with deuterium in the intrinsic layer of the cell improves stability against light exposure. On the other hand, cells in which intrinsic layers were deposited from SiD4+H2 and SiH4+D2 do not show any improvement in stability. This result shows that improved stability in deuterated cell does not originate from simple replacement of hydrogen with deuterium. From deuterium/hydrogen effusion measurements, we found similar effusion at low temperature (400 °C) in both deuterated film and hydrogenated film prepared with heavy dilution. The latter film was shown to have oriented microstructure which was correlated with higher stability. This correlation strongly indicates that microstructure of the material plays a key role in improving the stability.

Novel Design Strategies for Perovskite Materials with Improved Stability and Suitable Band Gaps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Zhang ◽  
Xiaogang Wang ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Lei Tong ◽  
Bin Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Band Gaps ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Perovskite Materials ◽  
Improved Stability ◽  
Halide Perovskites ◽  
Novel Design

The instability of organometallic halide perovskites is deemed a key hindrance hampering their commercial utilization in solar cell research. In the current work, we investigate and compare the dynamics properties...

Organic D-A-π-A Solar Cell Sensitizers with Improved Stability and Spectral Response

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihong Zhu ◽  
Yongzhen Wu ◽  
Shutao Wang ◽  
Wenqin Li ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Spectral Response ◽  
Improved Stability

Improved Blue Response of Amorphous Silicon Alloy Solar Cells

1990 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Banerjee ◽  
S. Guha
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Antireflection Coating ◽  
Silicon Alloy ◽  
Total Current Density ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous ◽  
Ar Coating

ABSTRACTA two-layer MgF2/ITO antireflection (AR) coating has been used to reduce the reflection losses from the surface of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloy solar cell. This has resulted in a higher efficiency device primarily due to an improved blue response. The relative thicknesses of the MgF2 and ITO layers have been tailored to give the highest overall quantum efficiency (Q) values, which are higher than that obtained with a single-layer antireflection coating. Typically, the 0 value at 400 nm (Q400) has been increased from 0.58 to 0.68 for a single a:SiH cell. Incorporation of the double-layer AR coating in conjunction with μc-SiC p-layer has yielded Q400 value of 0.77. The total current density obtained by adding the individual contribution of the component cells of a dual bandgap triple amorphous silicon alloy solar cell has been increased from 21.90 to 23.27 mA/cm2 using the double-layer AR coating.

a-SiGe:H Alloy and its Application to Tandem-Type Solar Cell

1986 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Yukimoto ◽  
M. Aiga
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Cell Size ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
High Conversion ◽  
High Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Silicon Alloy

ABSTRACTAmorphous SiGe:H alloy is the key material in achieving high conversion efficiency with tandem-type amorphous silicon alloy solar cells. Status and issues for this key material are discussed, and efforts made to irprove it are reviewed to obtain directions for higher quality a-SiGe:H alloys. An application of the improved alloy to tandem-type solar cell to achieve 9.6% efficiency for the cell size of 100 cm2 is reported.

Amorphous Silicon-Carbon Alloys for Solar Cells

1993 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Hydrogen Dilution ◽  
Silicon Carbon ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous ◽  
Substrate Temperatures ◽  
Open Circuit Voltages

Recent efforts to optimize undoped, glow-discharge hydrogenated amorphous silicon-carbon alloys (a-SiC:H) with 1.9-2.0 eV bandgaps for solar cell applications are reviewed. Hydrogen dilution coupled with relatively low substrate temperatures (below 200 °C) have led to great improvements in the optical and phototransport properties of a-SiC:H films. The issue of alternative carbon feedstocks other than methane (CH4) will be explored. The improved a-SiC:H alloys have resulted in solar cells with high open circuit voltages (V∞ > 1.0 volt) and high fill factors (> 0.7). Further, the a-SiC:H solar cell instability upon prolonged light exposure has been much reduced. Correlation will be made between the properties of bulk undoped a-SiC:H films and the performance of p-i-nsingle junction solar cells using corresponding a-SiC:H thin i-layers.

Improved Stability of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells Fabricated by Triode-Plasma CVD

2005 ◽  
Vol 862 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Sonobe ◽  
A. Sato ◽  
T. Fujibayashi ◽  
S. Shimizu ◽  
T. Matsui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Plasma Cvd ◽  
Plate Electrode ◽  
Bond Density ◽  
Degradation Ratio ◽  
Improved Stability ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous

AbstractWe have employed a triode-type plasma CVD system to fabricate highly stabilized hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells. The p-i-n type solar cells were fabricated on a textured SnO2/glass substrate (ASAHI VU type). By applying a triode system, the Si-H2 bond density in the film decreased to about one third (from 1.7 at.% for conventional parallel-plate-electrode to 0.6 at.% for a triode configuration), and correspondingly the degradation ratio decreased from 13 % to 10 %. We have achieved the degradation ratio of 5 % by optimizing the player deposition conditions. In case of a triode system, there were minor effects of higher hydrogen dilution in the stabilized efficiency. We have experimented the effects of the substrate temperature for a higher stabilized efficiency. Further improvement in solar efficiency has been made by applying antireflection layers to air/glass and TCO/p interfaces. As a result, we have achieved the stabilized efficiency of 9.22 % (Jsc = 15.9 mA/cm2, Voc = 0.863 V, FF = 0.672) with a degradation ratio of 7.8 %. We have also employed the triode-deposited a-Si:H solar cell to a tandem type solar cell with a structure of a-Si:H/hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H). We have achieved the stabilized efficiency of 10.9 % (Jsc = 12.0 mA/cm2, Voc = 1.31 V, FF = 0.691) with a degradation ratio of 7.3 %.

scholarly journals Improving Efficiency and Stability of Organic Solar Cell

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 375-378
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zeeshan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Tin Oxide ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Indium Tin Oxide ◽  
Organic Solar Cell ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Window Layer ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Improved Stability

Efficiency and stability are the main challenges of organic solar cells. In this research novel structure is investigated for organic solar cell which has improved efficiency and improved stability. Blend of PTB7 and PCBM elements was used for the active layer of cell. Thickness of this layer was varied from 80nm to 200nm and selected the optimized thickness of 90nm. On which the cell has maximum efficiency of 12.24 %. The influence of window layer material such as Zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) with various electrode materials including Indium tin oxide (ITO), Fluorine tin oxide (FTO), aluminum (Al) Silver (Ag) and Gold (Au) with different combinations have been investigated with the objective to enhance the absorption and PCE of the cell. Also varied the thicknesses of these different layers and selected the optimized thickness on which the cell had maximum efficiency. The structure of the proposed scheme was observed with ITO/Al as top and bottom electrode with thicknesses of 125nm and 100nm respectively and found that this holds the highest performance parameters including Jsc=0.130(mA/m2), Voc= 1 (V), FF=94.1% and ƞ=12.24% respectively as compared to different electrode combination and window layers with the same photoactive absorber material PTB7: PCBM. This indicates that the proposed structure can be a good choice for replacing less efficient in-organic cell.

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