Graphene as a material for solar cells applications

• Autorzy: Czerniak-Reczulska M. , Niedzielska A. , Jędrzejczak A.

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DOI

10.1515/adms-2015-0024

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with honeycomb structure. Its unique mechanical, physical electrical and optical properties makes it an important industrially and economically material in the coming years. One of the application areas for graphene is the photovoltaic industry. Studies have shown that doped graphene can change one absorbed photon of a few electrons, which in practice means an increase in efficiency of solar panels. In addition, graphene has a low coefficient of light absorption 2.3% which indicates that is an almost completely transparent material. In fact, it means that solar cells based on graphene can significantly expand the absorbed spectrum wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. Graphene additionally is a material with a very high tensile strength so it can be successfully used on the silicon, flexible and organic substrates as well. So far, significant effort has been devoted to using graphene for improving the overall performance of photovoltaic devices. It has been reported that graphene can play diverse, but positive roles such as an electrode, an active layer, an interfacial layer and an electron acceptor in photovoltaic cells. Research on solar cells containing in its structure graphene however, are still at laboratory scale. This is due to both lack the ability to produce large-sized graphene and reproducibility of its parameters.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

graphene; photovoltaic cells; transparent materials; graphene oxide

• Wydawca: Politechnika Gdańska
• Czasopismo: Advances in Materials Science
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 15, nr 4(46)
• Strony: 67--81
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 43 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Czerniak-Reczulska M.

• Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, 90-924 Lodz, Stefanowskiego Street 1/15, Poland

autor

Niedzielska A.

• Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, 90-924 Lodz, Stefanowskiego Street 1/15, Poland

autor

Jędrzejczak A.

• Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, 90-924 Lodz, Stefanowskiego Street 1/15, Poland

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