Performance enhancement of Sb2Se3 solar cell using a back surface field layer: a numerical simulation approach

SR Al Ahmed, A Sunny, S Rahman - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present work, antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se 3)-based solar cell with a back surface field
(BSF) layer has been designed and studied. The purpose of this research is to improve the …

Towards high efficiency inverted Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells

Y Cao, X Zhu, H Chen, X Zhang, J Zhouc, Z Hu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sb 2 Se 3 as a rising star semiconducting material with a bandgap of 1.1 eV has played a
role of the absorber in the thin film solar cells. Regular device architectures such as metal …

Numerical Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Highly Efficient Sb2Se3 Solar Cell with Tin Sulfide as Hole Transport Layer

A Sunny, SRA Ahmed - physica status solidi (b), 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This work reports a numerical investigation on the performance of Sb2Se3‐based thin‐film
heterojunction solar cell using the solar cell capacitance simulator in 1D (SCAPS‐1D) …

Towards the enhanced efficiency of ultrathin Sb2Se3 based solar cell with cubic silicon carbide (3C–SiC) buffer layer

Z Ali, K Ali, B Hussain, S Maqsood, I Iqbal - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se 3) is a sustainable candidate for renewable energy
production. Photovoltaic cells based on Sb 2 Se 3 has grown worldwide interest and …

Sunlight-thin nanophotonic monocrystalline silicon solar cells

V Depauw, C Trompoukis, I Massiot, W Chen… - Nano …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Introducing nanophotonics into photovoltaics sets the path for scaling down the surface
texture of crystalline-silicon solar cells from the micro-to the nanoscale, allowing to further …

Optimization of CdS-free non-toxic electron transport layer for Sb2S3-based solar cell with notable enhanced performance

S Maqsood, Z Ali, K Ali, RB Awan, Y Arooj… - Journal of Computational …, 2023 - Springer
In this investigation, we develop CdS-free non-toxic thin-film solar cell structure with
antimony sulfide (Sb2S3) as an absorber material. Sb2S3 has found to be a promising …

Photonic nanostructures for advanced light trapping in silicon solar cells: the impact of etching on the material electronic quality

C Trompoukis, A Stesmans, E Simoen… - physica status solidi …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Dry plasma etching, commonly used by the Photonics community as the etching technique
for the fabrication of photonic nanostructures, could be a source of device performance …

Nanophotonics-based low-temperature PECVD epitaxial crystalline silicon solar cells

W Chen, R Cariou, M Foldyna, V Depauw… - Journal of Physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The enhancement of light absorption via nanopatterning in crystalline silicon solar cells is
becoming extremely important with the decrease of wafer thickness for the further reduction …

Design of deterministic light-trapping structures for thin silicon heterojunction solar cells

SA Nadi, K Bittkau, F Lentz, K Ding, U Rau - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We optically designed and investigated two deterministic light-trapping concepts named
“Hutong”(wafer thickness dependent, patch-like arrangement of “V” grooves with alternating …

The interplay between emitter conformality and field‐effect passivation in pyramid structured silicon solar devices

A Razzaq, V Depauw, J John, I Gordon… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Light management in crystalline silicon solar cells has conventionally been achieved by
random micropyramid texturing but other non‐conventional surface texturing methods, such …