Optical design, photon management, and energy conversion efficiency are investigated through numerical simulation of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell using the single-diode model. A strong near-infrared reflectance roughly 60% is present in perovskite-based top cell. ZnO Si3N4 anti-reflection coating layers placed on surface perovskite layer silicon sub-cell respectively for management mini...

The development of new heterostructures with high photoactivity is a breakthrough for the limitation solar-driven water splitting. Here, we first introduce indium oxide (In2O3) nanorods (NRs) as novel electron transport layer bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) short charge diffusion length. In2O3 NRs reinforce and hole blocking BiVO4, surpassing state-of-the-art photoelectrochemical performances BiVO4-ba...

The paper gives an overview over recent results and future potentials of the cornbined ainorphous silicon/microcrys~alline silicon "micromorph" tandem cell technology. The reported results include replacement of boron-microdoping compensation by employment of gas-purification to obtain mid-gap iriicrocrystailine silicon, leading to tne fabrication of a 3.6 ~m thick microcrystalline silicon p-i-...

the effect of evaporation rate on structural, morphological and optical properties of electron beam evaporated cds thin films have been investigated. cds thin film deposited by electron beam evaporation method in 12nm/min and 60nm/min evaporation rates on glass substrates. x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, uv-vis-nir spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy were used to character...

dye sensitized solar cell was fabricated from a double layer photoanode. first, tio2 nanoparticles  were synthesized by hydrothermal method. these tio2 nps were deposited on fto glasses by electrophoretic deposition  method in applied voltage of 5 v and epd time of 2.5-10 min. then tio2 hollow spheres (hss) were synthesized by sacrificed template method with carbon spheres as template and ttip ...

Device modeling and simulation of a mechanically stacked CuGaSe2/Cu(In1-x,Gax)Se2 (CGS/CIGS) tandem solar cell have been carried out in this study. The physical model consists of a CIGS bottom cell with a double graded band-gap profile in the space charge region (SCR) and the backside of the absorber layer and a uniform band-gap CGS top cell. By varying the absorber layer thickness of the CGS t...

In this article, the effect of plasmonic properties of metal nanoparticles with different shapes, and moreover, their plasmonic-photonic interaction, on solar cell performance were investigated and simulated. Because of low conversion efficiency and then high cost of solar cells, it is difficult to commercialize and replace them with conventional energy resources. But in recent years, the plasm...