Nanowire decorated, ultra-thin, single crystalline silicon for photovoltaic devices

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2017-10-06

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AURANG, Pantea
Turan, Raşit
Ünalan, Hüsnü Emrah

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Reducing silicon ( Si) wafer thickness in the photovoltaic industry has always been demanded for lowering the overall cost. Further benefits such as short collection lengths and improved open circuit voltages can also be achieved by Si thickness reduction. However, the problem with thin films is poor light absorption. One way to decrease optical losses in photovoltaic devices is to minimize the front side reflection. This approach can be applied to front contacted ultra-thin crystalline Si solar cells to increase the light absorption. In this work, homojunction solar cells were fabricated using ultra-thin and flexible single crystal Si wafers. A metal assisted chemical etching method was used for the nanowire( NW) texturization of ultra-thin Si wafers to compensate weak light absorption. A relative improvement of 56% in the reflectivity was observed for ultra-thin Si wafers with the thickness of 20 +/- 0.2 mu m upon NW texturization. NW length and top contact optimization resulted in a relative enhancement of 23% +/- 5% in photovoltaic conversion efficiency.

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Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, General Materials Science, Mechanics of Materials, Bioengineering, General Chemistry

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37970

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NANOTECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aa81b9

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P. AURANG, R. Turan, and H. E. Ünalan, “Nanowire decorated, ultra-thin, single crystalline silicon for photovoltaic devices,” NANOTECHNOLOGY, pp. 0–0, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37970.