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Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 38)
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This article is published in Progress in Photovoltaics.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 326 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Solar energy & Solar cell.read more
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Pathways to a New Efficiency Regime for Organic Solar Cells
TL;DR: In this article, three different theoretical approaches are presented to identify pathways to organic solar cells with power conversion efficiencies in excess of 20% and the dielectric constant is introduced as a central parameter for efficient solar cells.
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Crystalline silicon photovoltaics: a cost analysis framework for determining technology pathways to reach baseload electricity costs
Douglas M. Powell,Mark T. Winkler,Hyunjoo Choi,Christie Simmons,D. Berney Needleman,Tonio Buonassisi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the potential of c-Si photovoltaics to reach this goal by developing a bottom-up cost model for C-Si wafer, cell, and module manufacturing, and performing a sensitivity analysis to determine research domains that provide the greatest impact on cost.
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Vegetable-based dye-sensitized solar cells.
TL;DR: An in-depth discussion on the main limitation of cell performance e.g. dye degradation, effective electron injection from the dye into the conduction band of semiconducting nanoparticles, such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, outlining future developments for the use of vegetable sensitizers in DSSCs.
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Investigating the role of grain boundaries in CZTS and CZTSSe thin film solar cells with scanning probe microscopy.
TL;DR: To understand what enables CIGS and CdTe solar cells to achieve their high efficiencies and whether CZTS and CZ TSSe have the same beneficial property, the aim of this paper is to understand why these materials perform better in the polycrystalline form rather than their single-crystal form.
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Compositional Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Two Donor Polymers
TL;DR: This work shows that upon optimization of the overall polymer:fullerene ratio at each polymer:polymer ratio, high FF, regular variations in V(oc), and enhanced J(sc) are possible throughout the ternary blend composition regime.
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Stability/degradation of polymer solar cells
TL;DR: In this article, the current understanding of stability/degradation in organic and polymer solar cell devices is presented and the methods for studying and elucidating degradation are discussed Methods for enhancing the stability through the choice of better active materials, encapsulation, application of getter materials and UV-filters are also discussed
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19·9%‐efficient ZnO/CdS/CuInGaSe2 solar cell with 81·2% fill factor
Ingrid Repins,Miguel A. Contreras,Brian Egaas,Clay DeHart,John Scharf,Craig L. Perkins,Bobby To,Rommel Noufi +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a new record total area efficiency of 19·9% for thin-film solar cells using three-stage co-evaporation with a modified surface termination.
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New world record efficiency for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin‐film solar cells beyond 20%
Philip Jackson,Dimitrios Hariskos,Erwin Lotter,Stefan Paetel,Roland Wuerz,Richard Menner,Wiltraud Wischmann,Michael Powalla +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new certified world record efficiency of 20.1 and 20.3% for thin-film solar cells for the first time and analyzed the characteristics of solar cells on such a performance level and demonstrate a high degree of reproducibility.
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High‐Efficiency Solar Cell with Earth‐Abundant Liquid‐Processed Absorber
TL;DR: A non-vacuum, slurry-based coating method that combines advantages of both solution processing and particlebased deposition is shown, enabling fabrication of Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4 devices with over 9.6% efficiency—a factor of five performance improvement relative to previous attempts to use highthroughput ink-based approaches and >40% higher than previous record devices prepared using vacuum-based methods.
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19.8% efficient “honeycomb” textured multicrystalline and 24.4% monocrystalline silicon solar cells
TL;DR: In this paper, a hexagonally symmetric honeycomb surface texture was used to reduce reflection loss in multicrystalline silicon solar cells and increase the cell's effective optical thickness.