Amorphous Silicon Films from Dichlorosilane and SiH4 for Solar Cells

1996 ◽  
Vol 420 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Payne ◽  
S. Wagner

AbstractWe have deposited amorphous silicon films from mixtures of dichlorosilane (SiH2C12, DCS), and silane (SiH4) and made the first p-i-n solar cells using i-layers of this material. We measured optical and electronic transport properties of the DCS-derived films and relate them to the solar cell performance. The DCS cells are compared to standard cells made with SilH4.

1996 ◽  
Vol 426 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Payne ◽  
S. Wagner

AbstractWe have deposited amorphous silicon films from mixtures of dichlorosilane (SiH2CI2, DCS), and silane (SiH4) and made the first p-i-n solar cells using i-layers of this material. We measured optical and electronic transport properties of the DCS-derived films and relate them to the solar cell performance. The DCS cells are compared to standard cells made with SiH4.


2011 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Ying Ge Li ◽  
Dong Xing Du

Aiming for potential application in flexible solar cells, electronic transport properties are studied for hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films on plastic substrates. Intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers are deposited on Kapton and Upilex-s polyimide substrates at temperatures of 100°C and 180°C by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system. Layers on 75μm and 125 thick Kapton and on 125 Upilex-s substrates are characterized by dark conductivity and activation energy measurements. It can be concluded that the intrinsic layer on 125μm thick Kapton and Upilex-s plastic both have favorable electrical properties and therefore could be employed as substrate material for flexible solar cells.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (45) ◽  
pp. 19282-19289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenggang Huang ◽  
Elisa Collado Fregoso ◽  
Stoichko Dimitrov ◽  
Pabitra Shakya Tuladhar ◽  
Ying Woan Soon ◽  
...  

The performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells based on a novel donor polymer DPP-TT-T was optimised by tuning molecular weight and thermal annealing.


Author(s):  
Hung-Cheng Chen ◽  
Jie-Min Lan ◽  
Hsiang-Lin Hsu ◽  
Chia-Wei Li ◽  
Tien-Shou Shieh ◽  
...  

Three different benzylammonium halide (Cl, Br, and I) salts were investigated to elucidate their effects as additives on MAPbI3 perovskite surface morphology, crystal structure, optical properties, and solar cell performance and stability.


2001 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baojie Yana ◽  
Jeffrey Yanga ◽  
Kenneth Lord ◽  
Subhendu Guha

ABSTRACTA systematic study has been made of the annealing kinetics of amorphous silicon (a-Si) alloy solar cells. The cells were deposited at various rates using H2 dilution with radio frequency (RF) and modified very high frequency (MVHF) glow discharge. In order to minimize the effect of annealing during light soaking, the solar cells were degraded under 30 suns at room temperature to quickly reach their saturated states. The samples were then annealed at an elevated temperature. The J-V characteristics were recorded as a function of annealing time. The correlation of solar cell performance and defect density in the intrinsic layer was obtained by computer simulation. Finally, the annealing activation energy distribution (Ea) was deduced by fitting the experimental data to a theoretical model. The results show that the RF low rate solar cell with high H2 dilution has the lowest Ea and the narrowest distribution, while the RF cell with no H2 dilution has the highest Ea and the broadest distribution. The MVHF cell made at 8Å/s withhigh H2 dilution shows a lower Ea and a narrower distribution than the RF cell made at 3 Å/s, despite the higher rate. We conclude that different annealing kinetics plays an important role in determining the stabilized performance of a-Si alloy solar cells.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kamruzzaman

ZnO nanorod (NR) based inorganic quantum dot sensitized solar cells have gained tremendous attention for use in next generation solar cells.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (63) ◽  
pp. 38344-38350
Author(s):  
Kai Wang ◽  
Sheng Dong ◽  
Xudong Chen ◽  
Ping Zhou ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
...  

Ternary all-polymer solar cells are fabricated using an N2200 acceptor and two donor polymers (PF2 and PM2) with complementary absorption.


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