Materials for downconversion in solar cells: Perspectives and challenges

MB De la Mora, O Amelines-Sarria, BM Monroy… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Solar energy has an enormous potential to solve society energy needs in a sustainable way.
Notably, photovoltaic systems (PV) permit to obtain electricity based on solar energy …

Recent progress and emerging applications of rare earth doped phosphor materials for dye‐sensitized and perovskite solar cells: a review

R Rajeswari, N Islavath, M Raghavender… - The Chemical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although the efficiency of Dye‐sensitized and Perovskite solar cell is still below the
performance level of market dominance silicon solar cells, in last few years they have …

Structure and defects-related optical properties of highly (002)-oriented zinc oxide thin films

A Anjum, R Ahmed, ZA Umar, S Azzam… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2022 - Elsevier
We report on the highly (002)-oriented ZnO thin films deposited on glass substrates at
different substrate temperatures using the recently developed pulsed laser deposition (PLD) …

Effect of Boron Doping on Structural, Optical, and Electrical properties of Hydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films Grown by the Catalytic Chemical Vapour …

B Gabhale, H Borate, A Bhorde… - ES Materials & …, 2022 - espublisher.com
In this paper, we report the synthesis of highly conducting boron-doped p-type hydrogenated
nanocrystalline Silicon (nc-Si: H) films by the catalytic chemical vapour deposition (Cat …

Optical properties and crystallinity of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si: H) thin films deposited by rf-PECVD

GB Tong, Z Aspanut, MR Muhamad, SA Rahman - Vacuum, 2012 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si: H) thin films prepared in a home-built radio-
frequency (rf) plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) system have been …

Structural and optical properties of nano-crystalline ZnO thin films synthesized by sol–gel method

J Li, D Yang, X Zhu, H Sun, X Gao, P Wangyang… - Journal of Sol-Gel …, 2017 - Springer
Nano-crystalline ZnO thin films on glass substrates have been prepared by sol–gel method
at annealing temperatures of 300–550° C. Zinc acetate, anhydrous ethanol, and mono …

High-performance hydrogenated amorphous silicon deposited by ion-beam sputtering for gravitational-wave detectors

S Fang, Z Lu, X Ji, H Jiao, X Cheng, Z Wang, J Zhang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a promising material with a high refractive index that shows great
potential in the development of low-thermal-noise, highly reflective coatings for gravitational …

Impact of interfacial layer using ultra-thin SiO2 on electrical and structural characteristics of Gd2O3 MOS capacitor

A Kahraman, U Gurer, R Lok, S Kaya… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - Springer
The aim of present study is to improve the quality of Gd 2 O 3/p-Si MOS structure by reducing
interface trap charge density. Therefore, the ultra-thin SiO 2 layer was grown to high-k/Si …

A new look at an explanation of band gap of PECVD grown a-Si: H thin films using absorption spectra, spectroscopic ellipsometry, Raman, and FTIR spectrosopy

CB Singh, S Bhattacharya, S Prayogi, US Patel… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Amorphous silicon is seen to be among the most promising materials for solar cell
applications because of its higher temperature coefficient of resistance, adjustable forbidden …

Luminescent downshifting silicon quantum dots for performance enhancement of polycrystalline silicon solar cells

Q Masaadeh, E Kaplani, Y Chao - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silicon quantum dots (Si-QDs) with luminescent downshifting properties have been used for
the efficiency enhancement of solar cells. In this study, Phenylacetylene-capped silicon …