Improvement Optical and Electrical Characteristics of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Nanotechnology Techniques

• Autorzy: Thabet Ahmed , Abdelhady Safaa , Ebnalwaled A.A. , Ibrahim A. A.

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DOI

10.24425/ijet.2019.129822

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This work presents a theoretical study for the distribution of nanocomposite structure of plasmonic thin-film solar cells through the absorber layers. It can be reduced the material consumption and the cost of solar cell. Adding nanometallic fillers in the absorber layer has been improved optical, electrical characteristics and efficiency of traditional thin film solar cells (ITO /CdS/PbS/Al and SnO2/CdS/CdTe/Cu) models that using sub micro absorber layer. Also, this paper explains analysis of J-V, P-V and external quantum efficiency characteristics for nanocomposites thin film solar cell performance. Also, this paper presents the effect of increasing the concentration of nanofillers on the absorption, energy band gap and electron-hole generation rate of absorber layers and the effect of volume fraction on the energy conversion efficiency, fill factor, space charge region of the nanocomposites solar cells.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

thin film; nanoparticles; nanocomposites; energy conversion; optical; plasmonic; solar cells

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunication
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 65, No. 4
• Strony: 625--634
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 46 poz., wykr., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Thabet Ahmed

• College of engineering in Qassim University, KSA and so, Faculty of Energy Engineering in Aswan University, Egypt

autor

Abdelhady Safaa

• Aswan Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt

autor

Ebnalwaled A.A.

• Electronics & Nano Devices lab South Valley university, Qena, Egypt

autor

Ibrahim A. A.

• Aswan Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt

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Uwagi

The present work was supported by Nanotechnology Research Center at Aswan University that is established by aiding the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Egypt, Grant No: Project ID 505, 2009-2011.