Showing papers in "Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells in 2001"

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of conduction band offset of window/CIGS layers on performance of CIGS solar cells was investigated and it was shown that good performance can be obtained when the conduction bands of window layer positions higher by 0.4 to 0.5 eV than that of CIC.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new type of thin-film solar cell was proposed, which was composed of Al/ZnO:Al/CdS/CZTS/Mo-SLG.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview on the present status of SiN for industrial as well as laboratory-type c-Si solar cells, including the fundamental properties of Si-Si interfaces fabricated by PECVD.

TL;DR: In this article, the optical direct band gap energies for Cu2O and CuO films calculated from optical absorption measurements are 2.10 and 1.90 eV, respectively, which are quite comparable with the reported values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of sol-gel derived anti-reflection (AR) coating on different substrates for various applications in the past 40 years is reviewed. And the major approaches to fabricate AR coating and their characteristics have been discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a sequential preparation with metallic layers of Cu and In rapidly heated in elemental sulfur vapor to obtain 11.4% total area efficiency (A=0.5 cm2), which is the best CuInS2-based solar cell so far.

TL;DR: In this paper, the angular losses of photovoltaic (PV) modules in real operation are calculated in reference to their behavior in standard test conditions, due to the angle of incidence of the incident radiation and the surface soil.

TL;DR: In this article, a brief updated review of sol-gel-derived electrochromic films of different chemical systems is presented, where performances of selected films measured in electrochemical cells or in devices are discussed and degradation problems experienced by different authors enumerated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for the deposition of CuSCN on ruthenium bipyridyl dye coated nanocrystalline TiO2 films from a solution in n-propyl sulphide was devised.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a non-intentional, process related approach to improve the performance of a CuInSe2 solar cell by controlling intentional band gap grading via Ga/In and S/Se grading during the deposition.

TL;DR: Optical effectiveness of anisotropic etching of (1−0−0) silicon in inorganic alkaline solution has been studied from the view point of its application in commercial silicon solar cells as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, X-ray diffractometry (XRD), X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-visible (UV-Vis) spectrography and cyclic voltammetry were used to characterize Ceria (CeO2) films.

TL;DR: In this article, the state of the art in the development of electrochromic (EC) coatings and devices, batteries, nanocrystalline solar cells and in the field of catalysis achieved during the last decade using sol-gel derived pure and doped niobium pentoxide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the present status of radiation-resistant solar cells made with Si, GaAs, InP and InGaP/GaAs for space use is reviewed based on an anomalous degradation of Si space solar cells under high-energy, high-fluence electron and proton irradiations.

TL;DR: In this article, the electrical properties of the Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 /MoSe 2/Mo structure were investigated and the band gap of MoSe 2 was calculated to be 1.41eV from the absorption peak.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the successful growth of undoped, Ge- and Ti-doped β-Ga2O3 single crystals by the floating zone technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline world-wide research on thin-film crystalline silicon solar cells and discuss light trapping, vapour-and liquid-phase deposition techniques, cell fabrication and some general considerations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new cell design using an extremely thin absorber (eta-solar cell) is prepared to obtain an effective separation of charge carriers within the depletion layer.

TL;DR: In this article, an organic solvent method was proposed to recover silicon cells from conventional crystalline silicon PV modules, and the module was immersed in trichloroethylene at 80°C for 10 days.

TL;DR: The first installation of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) was realized in 1991 in Aachen, Germany (Benemann et al., Adv. Sol. Energy 13 (1999) 317) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of electrolytes on the photovoltaic performance of mercurochrome-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO 2 solar cells using LiI, LiBr, and tetraalkylammonium iodides as the electrolyte was studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, high-efficiency Cadmium-free Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells have been fabricated using a chemical bath deposition (CBD)-ZnS buffer layer, a wider band gap material than of conventional CBD-CdS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of the underlying defect and its technological reduction are discussed, and two different ways to reduce the metastable defect concentration are discussed beyond the defect analysis, including substituting or reducing one of the major components of the defect can completely avoid the degradation effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface passivation properties of silicon nitride (SiN) films fabricated by high-frequency direct plasmaenhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) on low resistivity (1 ǫ) p-type silicon solar cell substrates have been investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a method to estimate the equivalent circuit parameters of a PV (photovoltaic) module is presented, where the parameters are calculated using a least-squares "tting of the equivalent model current"voltage characteristic with the measured one.

TL;DR: A composite based on paraffin, styrene, butadiene-styrene (SBS) triblock copolymer and exfoliated graphite (EG) is prepared in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the co-deposition of iron and sulfur from an aqueous solution was studied as a method for pyrite (FeS2) thin-film preparation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon prepared at low temperatures by the glow discharge technique is examined with respect to its role as a new thin-film photovoltaic absorber material.

TL;DR: In this article, two novel texture schemes for the front of a c-Si silicon wafer solar cell are presented, the "patch" texture uses a checkerboard layout of blocks of parallel grooves, with the grooves of alternating blocks perpendicularly oriented to each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a specific defect as the relevant recombination center and show that the concentration of this defect varies with the Ga-content in the absorber alloy with the highest concentration in pure CuGaSe2.