Showing papers in "Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells in 2000"

TL;DR: In this article, the progress that has taken place since 1993 with regard to film deposition, characterization by physical and chemical techniques, optical properties, as well as electrochromic device assembly and performance is reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) prepared by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) has been investigated as material for absorber layers in solar cells.

TL;DR: In this article, a dye-sensitized ZnO solar cell with an I " /I3 " redox electrolyte was investigated and the solar energy conversion efficiency under AM1.5 (99mWcm ‐2 ) reached 2.5% with a short-circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) of 7.44mA cm "2, a open circuit photovoltage (Voc) of 0.52 V, and a fill factor (ff)of 0.64.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Schottky junction formed at the interface of ITO and zinc phthalocyanine was investigated to study the influence of the metal particles on the optical extinction spectra and on the short circuit photocurrent spectra of such constructed organic solar cells.

TL;DR: In this article, the stability of vapour deposited Pt and Pd as electrocatalysts on fluorine doped, tin oxide coated glass for the use as counter electrodes in dye senzitized electrochemical solar cells has been investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the preparation of a form-stable phase change material (form-stable PCM) -polyethylene-paraffin compound (PPC) is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of Cu as a major factor that can limit the stability of CdTe/CdS photovoltaic cells is discussed, and some possible Cu-related degradation mechanisms, as well as some non-Cu related issues for cell stability are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of a dye and a nanostructured NiO thin film on a conducting substrate can form a dye-sensitized photocathode that can be an active part in a tandem dye-Sensitized solar cell (TDSC).

TL;DR: Degradation studies of poly(2-methoxy-5-(3@,7@-dimethyloctyloxy)-1,4-phenylene-vinylene) (MDMO-PPV), fullerenes ((6,6)-phenyl C 61 - butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and C 60 ), and mixtures, which are the photoactive components in plastic solar cells, are shown in this article.

TL;DR: The history of photovoltaic materials can be traced in this paper, where the authors look at possible future scenarios and discuss the use of thin film crystalline silicon on different substrates.

TL;DR: In this article, the plasmon resonance effect was used to enhance the efficiency of photochemical cells, and the photoresponse in the visible region increased as the mass-equivalent Ag-island film thickness, tAg, increased to 3.3

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the NaF on the absorber growth is studied by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD).

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficiency of a purely organic solar cell is not limited mainly by the achieved current efficiency but rather the obtained open-circuit voltage and the fill factor, and it is shown that here for the first time, the efficiency is not restricted by the current efficiency, but rather by the obtained voltage and fill factor.

TL;DR: In this article, a double-cermet layer film structure was developed for solar selective surfaces with better solar performance than surfaces using a homogeneous cermet layer or conventional graded film structure, which reduced the cost of depositing high-temperature solar coatings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photovoltaic behavior in a perylene/phthalocyanine hetero-p/n-junction solar cell was investigated using intensity-dependent I/V characteristics and short circuit photocurrent spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of CdTe/CdS/cd1−xZnxS structure in photovoltaic application has been demonstrated and the unoptimized solar cell structure grown on transparent conducting oxide coated soda lime glass of 3mm thickness with no antireflection coating yielded a 10% efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of annealing on performance and morphology of photovoltaic devices using blends of two organic semiconductors: a conjugated polymer and a soluble perylene derivative.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of macro scale tests that compare the thermal storage performance of ordinary concrete blocks with those that have been impregnated with two phase change materials (PCM) are presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic study on doping of vanadyl and zincpathalocyanine by a fully fluorinated form of tetracyano-quinodimethane is presented as an example of controlled doping of thin organic films.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of fullerene doping on photoelectric conversion using titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc) and a perylene pigment, N, N′ -dimethyl-3,4,: 9,10-perylenebis(dicarboximide) (MPCI), was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have fabricated organic donor/acceptor solar cells with three different architectures using soluble derivatives of the molecular semiconductors phthalocyanine as electron donor (D), i.e. hole transport material and perylene as electron acceptor (A), and measured quantum efficiencies reach values between 0.3% and 1.1% with a photoresponse covering the entire spectrum of visible light.

TL;DR: In this article, a new anti-reflection coating structure based on the use of Herpin equivalent layers is presented, which requires no additional optical material development and characterization because no new optical materials are necessary.

TL;DR: In this paper, the cost-effective sizing and evaluation of residential stand-alone photovoltaic systems at various European and Mediterranean locations is the subject of the study, where a typical energy consumption daily profile is assumed, and the solar array, battery and back-up generator are optimally sized to minimize the system life-cycle cost.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the issues associated with reducing thin-film PV module costs much below today's levels and showed that materials will likely be such an overwhelming cost driver for mature manufacturing of thin film PV.

TL;DR: In this article, a technological approach for the sol-gel processing of stabilized xerogel colloidal titanium oxide films was presented, where glycerol was used as a drying control additive agent.

TL;DR: In this article, the application of light scattering of submicron TiO2 particles to dye-sensitized nanocrystalline photoelectrochemical cells is examined theoretically.

TL;DR: The photovoltaic properties of a photoelectrochemical solar cell based on In2S3/In2O3 thin film electrodes and I−/I3− redox electrolytes were investigated in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of F-doping on the electron affinity and work function of CdO thin films was investigated and a decrease of the transmittance for wavelengths higher than about 800nm was observed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a single-phase anatase nanocrystalline HyCOM-TiO2 (Hydrothermal Crystallization in Organic Media) was synthesized by high-temperature hydrolysis of titanium tetrabutoxide in toluene.

TL;DR: A review of the application of porous silicon (PS) in multicrystalline silicon solar cell processes is given in this article, where different PS formation processes, structural and optical properties of PS are discussed from the viewpoint of photovoltaics.