Novel perovskite solar cell with Distributed Bragg Reflector

This paper reports numerical modeling of perovskite solar cell which has been knotted with Distributed Bragg Reflector pairs to extract high energy efficiency. The geometry of the proposed cells is simulated with three different kinds of perovskite materials including CH3NH3PbI3, CH3NH3PbBr3, and CH3NH3SnI3. The toxic perovskite material based on Lead iodide and lead bromide appears to be more efficient as compared to non-toxic perovskite material. The executed simulated photovoltaic parameters with the highest efficient structure are open circuit voltage = 1.409 (V), short circuit current density = 24.09 mA/cm2, fill factor = 86.18%, and efficiency = 24.38%. Moreover, a comparison of the current study with different kinds of structures has been made and surprisingly our novel geometry holds enhanced performance parameters that are featured with back reflector pairs (Si/SiO2). The applied numerical approach and presented designing effort of geometry are beneficial to obtain results that have the potential to address problems with less efficient thin-film solar cells.

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Optimized Thin-Film Organic Solar Cell with Enhanced Efficiency

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313087 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13087

Author(s):

Waqas Farooq ◽

Muhammad Ali Musarat ◽

Javed Iqbal ◽

Syed Asfandyar Ali Kazmi ◽

Adnan Daud Khan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Solar Cell ◽

Organic Solar Cell ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Short Circuit Current Density ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Bragg Reflector ◽

Performance Parameters ◽

Distributed Bragg Reflector

Modification of a cell’s architecture can enhance the performance parameters. This paper reports on the numerical modeling of a thin-film organic solar cell (OSC) featuring distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) pairs. The utilization of DBR pairs via the proposed method was found to be beneficial in terms of increasing the performance parameters. The extracted results showed that using DBR pairs helps capture the reflected light back into the active region by improving the photovoltaic parameters as compared to the structure without DBR pairs. Moreover, implementing three DBR pairs resulted in the best enhancement gain of 1.076% in power conversion efficiency. The measured results under a global AM of 1.5G were as follows: open circuit voltage (Voc) = 0.839 V; short circuit current density (Jsc) = 10.98 mA/cm2; fill factor (FF) = 78.39%; efficiency (η) = 11.02%. In addition, a thermal stability analysis of the proposed design was performed and we observed that high temperature resulted in a decrease in η from 11.02 to 10.70%. Our demonstrated design may provide a pathway for the practical application of OSCs.

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Perovskite Solar Cell with Added Gold/Silver Nanoparticles: Enhanced Optical and Electrical Characteristics

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13153854 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 3854

Author(s):

Ali Hajjiah ◽

Hussein Badran ◽

Ishac Kandas ◽

Nader Shehata

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Perovskite Solar Cells ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Perovskite Solar Cell ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Electrical Characteristics ◽

Ag Nps ◽

Resonance Frequencies ◽

Gold Silver

Different perovskite materials, such as methylammonium lead triiodide MAPbI3, exhibit many outstanding and desirable properties in solar energy harvesting. In this paper, the enhancement of perovskite solar cells’ both optical and electrical characteristics through adding either gold (Au) or silver (Ag) nanoparticles (NPs) using different simulations was studied. The used plasmonic nanoparticles were found to be able to compensate for the low absorption of MAPbI3 in the visible with optical coupling resonance frequencies close to that spectrum. Optimal diameters of Au and Ag NPs were found and simulated, and their impact on different parameters such as transmission, absorption, reflection, external quantum efficiency (EQE), open circuit voltage, short-circuit current density, fill factor, and most importantly, efficiency of the perovskite solar cell, have been investigated.

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Modeling of a high performance bandgap graded Pb-free HTM-free perovskite solar cell

The European Physical Journal Applied Physics ◽

10.1051/epjap/2019190095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 10101 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Davoud Jalalian ◽

Abbas Ghadimi ◽

Azadeh Kiani

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

High Performance ◽

Fill Factor ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Perovskite Solar Cell ◽

Short Circuit Current Density ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Hole Transport ◽

Cell Capacitance

In this study, a lead-free nontoxic and hole transport material (HTM)-free perovskite solar cell (PSC) with a novel configuration of glass/FTO/ZnO/CH3NH3SnI3−xBrx/back contact has been modeled and optimized by a solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS). The bandgap of CH3NH3SnI3−xBrx absorber is tuned in the range of 1.3 eV to 2.15 eV by variation of the Br doping content. To make a comparison, an optimized Pb-based PSC is also modeled. By optimizing the parameters, power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.30%, open circuit voltage (Voc) of 1.02 V, short circuit current density (Jsc) of 22.23 mA/cm2, and fill factor (FF) of 0.72 were obtained. As compare to the reports available in the literature, these results show much improvement and can provide guidelines for production of economic and environmentally friendly PSCs with further efficiency enhancement.

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A Heterojunction Film Solar Cell of Glass/ITO/CdS/PbS/Al

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.569.176 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 569 ◽

pp. 176-179

Author(s):

Peng Wang ◽

Li Bo Fan ◽

Li Juan Sun ◽

Zhen Hua Zhang ◽

Xin Bing Zhu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

Fill Factor ◽

Near Infrared ◽

Open Circuit Voltage ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

High Energy ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Special Treatment ◽

Cds Film

A film solar cell was made with a structure of Glass/ITO/CdS/PbS/Al. CdS film was obtained by thermal evaporation. PbS film was prepared by a simple solid-solid reaction. The solar cells are photosensitive in a large spectral range (extending from near infrared to high energy side regions). The cell with the area of 0.15 cm2 without any special treatment has shown the values of open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 138 mV and short circuit current (Jsc) of 0.01 mA/cm2 with the efficiency of 0.33 % and the fill factor (FF) is 0.26 under illumination intensity of 100 mW/cm2.

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CdTe-Based Thin Film Solar Cells: Past, Present and Future

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14061684 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 1684

Author(s):

Alessandro Romeo ◽

Elisa Artegiani

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Solar Cells ◽

Solar Cell ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Short Circuit Current Density ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Early Years ◽

Solar Cell Efficiency ◽

Cell Efficiency

CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top producers in the world. CdTe has an optimum band gap for the Schockley-Queisser limit and could deliver very high efficiencies as single junction device of more than 32%, with an open circuit voltage of 1 V and a short circuit current density exceeding 30 mA/cm2. CdTe solar cells were introduced at the beginning of the 70s and they have been studied and implemented particularly in the last 30 years. The strong improvement in efficiency in the last 5 years was obtained by a new redesign of the CdTe solar cell device reaching a single solar cell efficiency of 22.1% and a module efficiency of 19%. In this paper we describe the fabrication process following the history of the solar cell as it was developed in the early years up to the latest development and changes. Moreover the paper also presents future possible alternative absorbers and discusses the only apparently controversial environmental impacts of this fantastic technology.

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GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si Multi-Junction Solar Cells by in Metal Balls Bonding

Crystals ◽

10.3390/cryst11070726 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 726

Author(s):

Ray-Hua Horng ◽

Yu-Cheng Kao ◽

Apoorva Sood ◽

Po-Liang Liu ◽

Wei-Cheng Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Solar Cells ◽

Solar Cell ◽

Low Temperature ◽

Triple Junction ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Metal Line ◽

Solar Simulator ◽

Junction Solar Cell

In this study, a mechanical stacking technique has been used to bond together the GaInP/GaAs and poly-silicon (Si) solar wafers. A GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cell has mechanically stacked using a low-temperature bonding process which involves micro metal In balls on a metal line using a high-optical-transmission spin-coated glue material. Current–voltage measurements of the GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cells have carried out at room temperature both in the dark and under 1 sun with 100 mW/cm2 power density using a solar simulator. The GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cell has reached an efficiency of 24.5% with an open-circuit voltage of 2.68 V, a short-circuit current density of 12.39 mA/cm2, and a fill-factor of 73.8%. This study demonstrates a great potential for the low-temperature micro-metal-ball mechanical stacking technique to achieve high conversion efficiency for solar cells with three or more junctions.

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Enhancement of the performance of CdS/CdTe heterojunction solar cell using TiO2/ZnO bi-layer ARC and V2O5 BSF layers: A simulation approach

The European Physical Journal Applied Physics ◽

10.1051/epjap/2020200213 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 92 (2) ◽

pp. 20901

Author(s):

Abdul Kuddus ◽

Md. Ferdous Rahman ◽

Jaker Hossain ◽

Abu Bakar Md. Ismail

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Photovoltaic Performance ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Short Circuit Current Density ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Heterojunction Solar Cell ◽

Back Surface ◽

Heterojunction Solar Cells

This article presents the role of Bi-layer anti-reflection coating (ARC) of TiO2/ZnO and back surface field (BSF) of V2O5 for improving the photovoltaic performance of Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) and Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) based heterojunction solar cells (HJSCs). The simulation was performed at different concentrations, thickness, defect densities of each active materials and working temperatures to optimize the most excellent structure and working conditions for achieving the highest cell performance using obtained optical and electrical parameters value from the experimental investigation on spin-coated CdS, CdTe, ZnO, TiO2 and V2O5 thin films deposited on the glass substrate. The simulation results reveal that the designed CdS/CdTe based heterojunction cell offers the highest efficiency, η of ∼25% with an enhanced open-circuit voltage, Voc of 0.811 V, short circuit current density, Jsc of 38.51 mA cm−2, fill factor, FF of 80% with bi-layer ARC and BSF. Moreover, it appears that the TiO2/ZnO bi-layer ARC, as well as ETL and V2O5 as BSF, could be highly promising materials of choice for CdS/CdTe based heterojunction solar cell.

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An Improved Triple-Tandem Organic Solar Cell

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-1212-s03-19 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1212 ◽

Author(s):

Dewei Zhao ◽

Xiao Wei Sun ◽

Lin Ke ◽

Swee Tiam Tan

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

Small Molecule ◽

Organic Solar Cells ◽

Organic Solar Cell ◽

Copper Phthalocyanine ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Solar Irradiation ◽

The Third

AbstractWe present an efficient polymer-small molecule triple-tandem organic solar cell (OSC), consisting of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and 1-(3-methoxycarbonyl)-propyl-1-phenyl-(6,6)C61 (PCBM) bulk heterojunction as the first and second cells, and small molecules copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and fullerene (C60) as the third cell on top. These sub-cells are connected by an intermediate layer of Al(1 nm)/MoO3(15 nm), which appears to be highly transparent, structurally smooth, and electrically functional. Compared to our previous all polymer triple-tandem organic solar cells (2.03%), this polymer-small molecule triple-tandem organic solar cell achieves an improved power conversion efficiency of 2.18% with a short-circuit current density (Jsc) = 3.02 mA/cm2, open-circuit voltage (Voc) = 1.51 V, and fill factor (FF) = 47.7% under simulated solar irradiation of 100 mW/cm2 (AM1.5G), which can be attributed to the increased photocurrent generation in the third cell since the third cell has the complementary absorption with two bottom cells despite a slightly reduced Voc.

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Study of Photoelectrochemical Solar Cell Using WSe2 Crystal

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.665.330 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 665 ◽

pp. 330-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ripal Parmar ◽

Dipak Sahay ◽

R.J. Pathak ◽

R.K. Shah

Keyword(s):

Solar Cells ◽

Solar Cell ◽

Fill Factor ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Cell Parameters ◽

Photoelectrochemical Solar Cell ◽

Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells

The solar cells have been used as most promising device to convert light energy into electrical energy. In this paper authors have attempted to fabricate Photoelectrochemical solar cell with semiconductor electrode using TMDCs. The Photoelectrochemical solar cells are the solar cells which convert the solar energy into electrical energy. The photoelectrochemical cells are clean and inexhaustible sources of energy. The photoelectrochemical solar cells are fabricated using WSe2crystal and electrolyte solution of 0.025M I2, 0.5M NaI, 0.5M Na2SO4. Here the WSe2crystals were grown by direct vapour transport technique. In our investigations the solar cell parameters like short circuit current (Isc) and Open circuit voltage (Voc) were measured and from that Fill factor (F.F.) and photoconversion efficiency (η) are investigated. The results obtained shows that the value of efficiency and fill factor of solar cell varies with the illumination intensities.

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Simulation of a perovskite sandwich solar cell with the p-CZTS / p-CH3NH3PbCI3 / p-CZTS absorber layers

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/877/1/012001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 877 (1) ◽

pp. 012001

Author(s):

Marwah S Mahmood ◽

N K Hassan

Keyword(s):

Solar Cell ◽

Conversion Efficiency ◽

Current Density ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Perovskite Solar Cells ◽

Short Circuit Current ◽

Short Circuit Current Density ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Current Voltage ◽

Cell Capacitance

Abstract Perovskite solar cells attract the attention because of their unique properties in photovoltaic cells. Numerical simulation to the structure of Perovskite on p-CZTS/p-CH3NH3PbCI3/p-CZTS absorber layers is performed by using a program solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS-1D), with changing absorber layer thickness. The effect of thickness p-CZTS/p-CH3NH3PbCI3/p-CZTS, layers at (3.2μm, 1.8 μm, 1.1 μm) respectively are studied. The obtained results are short circuit current density (Jsc ), open circuit voltage (V oc), fill factor (F. F) and power conversion efficiency (PCE) equal to (28 mA/cm2, 0.83 v, 60.58 % and 14.25 %) respectively at 1.1 μm thickness. Our findings revealed that the dependence of current - voltage characteristics on the thickness of the absorbing layers, an increase in the amount of short circuit current density with an increase in the thickness of the absorption layers and thus led to an increase in the conversion efficiency and improvement of the cell by increasing the thickness of the absorption layers.

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