Phase change materials for photovoltaic thermal management

MC Browne, B Norton, SJ McCormack - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review discusses methods that have been used for the thermal
management of photovoltaic modules. Particular attention has been paid to the use of phase …

Generalized quantum efficiency analysis for non-ideal solar cells: Case of Cu2ZnSnSe4

CJ Hages, NJ Carter, R Agrawal - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Detailed quantum efficiency (QE) analysis of a nanoparticle-based Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 (CZTSe)
solar cell has been conducted to understand photogenerated carrier collection in the device …

Sn substitution by Ge: strategies to overcome the open-circuit voltage deficit of kesterite solar cells

L Choubrac, M Bär, X Kozina, R Felix… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Current state-of-the-art Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 kesterite solar cells are limited by low open-circuit
voltages (V OC). In order to evaluate to what extent the substitution of Sn by Ge is able to …

Solid-state colloidal CuInS 2 quantum dot solar cells enabled by bulk heterojunctions

D So, S Pradhan, G Konstantatos - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal copper indium sulfide (CIS) nanocrystals (NCs) are Pb-and Cd-free alternatives for
use as absorbers in quantum dot solar cells. In a heterojunction with TiO2, non-annealed …

Enhanced performance of ultra-thin Cu (In, Ga) Se2 solar cells deposited at low process temperature

G Yin, V Brackmann, V Hoffmann, M Schmid - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2015 - Elsevier
To investigate the process temperature on the growth of ultra-thin (≤ 500 nm) Cu (In, Ga) Se
2 (CIGSe) absorbers and the corresponding performance of solar cells, the process …

A modeling study on utilizing In2S3 as a buffer layer in CIGS-based solar cells

N Beyrami, M Saadat, Z Sohbatzadeh - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In Cu (In1− x, Ga x) Se (CIGS)-based solar cells, the cadmium sulfide (CdS) layer is
conventionally used as a buffer layer. In the current study, the CdS layer was replaced by the …

[HTML][HTML] Solar Energy in Argentina

JA Bragagnolo, K Taretto, C Navntoft - Solar, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is a large gap between the vast solar resources and the magnitude of solar energy
deployment in Argentina. In the case of photovoltaics, the country only reached the 1000 …

Evidence of Limiting Effects of Fluctuating Potentials on of Thin-Film Solar Cells

JP Teixeira, PMP Salomé, B Alves, M Edoff… - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
In this paper we present a consistent theoretical approach and an extensive experimental
study of Cu (In, Ga) Se 2-(CIGS-) based solar cells to investigate the influence of fluctuating …

Bandgap extraction from quantum efficiency spectra of Cu (In, Ga) Se2 solar cells with varied grading profile and diffusion length

M Richter, MS Hammer, T Sonnet, J Parisi - Thin Solid Films, 2017 - Elsevier
Quantum efficiency measurements on Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells are widely used as
a non-destructive and easy to apply method to extract the bandgap of the CIGS absorber …

Unveiling the Low‐Temperature Pseudodegradation of Photovoltaic Performance in Planar Perovskite Solar Cell by Optoelectronic Observation

R Cao, F Xu, J Zhu, S Ge, W Wang, H Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The time evolution of the current–voltage characteristic of planar heterojunction perovskite
solar cell (PSC) is studied within an operating temperature range of 200–325 K. The …