Advances in Polymer-Based Photovoltaic Cells: Review of Pioneering Materials, Design, and Device Physics

Tiwari, Sanjay; Tiwari, Tanya; Carter, Sue A.; Scott, J. C.; Yakhmi, J. V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68255-6_59

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“…They have a tunable band gap, deposited at inexpensive precursors with simple fabrication process, abundant availability in nature, roll-to-roll printing ability, making them ideal candidate materials for tandem solar cells. [16][17][18] Multijunction solar cells, comprising multiple absorber layers with complementary band gaps, offer a proven approach to reach significantly higher performances. A single solar cell has limitation with parameter of Voc due to relation E g / q ( E g is band gap of the active material and q is elementary charge).…”

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Optimization of Efficient Perovskite-Si Hybrid Tandem Solar Cells

Shukla

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Tiwari

2023

Mat. Sci. Res. India

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Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells have attracted much attention to photovoltaic community because of their high efficiency via easy fabrication methods and availability of precursor material abundant in nature. The properties of both perovskite and silicon meet ideal solar cell standards such as high light absorption potential, long carrier diffusion length and fast charge separation process. Semi-transparent solar cell with widely tunable band gap of perovskite material is compatible with silicon solar cell for tandem structures. A perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell four terminal configuration optimization was performed through numerical simulation. The optimized four terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell performances was investigated by varying the thickness of top and bottom solar cell absorber layers, defect density of the absorber layer, and temperature. Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell showed better photovoltaic performance under constant illumination condition. A high performance mechanically attached four terminal (4-T) perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell has total power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 34.88% by optimized parameters through simulation. It has shown 37% efficiency with matched current of 23.71mA/cm2. These numerical simulation results are provided the parameter values for further experimental assignment.

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Optimization of Efficient Perovskite-Si Hybrid Tandem Solar Cells

Shukla

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Tiwari

2023

Mat. Sci. Res. India

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First Principles Studies of Some Polymer-Pcbm Complexes for Pv Cells

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Jain,

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Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency, Growth Mechanism and Design of III–V Nanowire-Based Solar Cells: Review

Geldasa¹

2023

Solar PV Panels - Recent Advances and Future Prospects

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Nanowires (NWs) are 1D nanostructures with unique and wonderful optical and electrical properties. Due to their highly anisotropic shape and enormous index of refraction, they behave as optical antennae with improved absorption and emission properties, and thus better photovoltaic cell efficiency compared to a planar material with equivalent volume. Implying important advantages of reduced material usage and cost as well as due to its direct bandgap and its flexibility for designing solar cells, we choose to review III–V NWs. Their bandgap can easily be tunable for growing on the cheapest Si substrate. The recent developments in NW-based photovoltaics with attractive III–V NWs with different growth mechanisms, device fabrication, and performance results are studied. Recently, III–V NW solar cells have achieved an interesting efficiency above 10%. GaAsP NW has achieved 10.2%; InP NW has achieved 13.8%; GaAs NW has achieved 15.3%; and moreover the highest 17.8% efficiency is achieved by InP NW. While the III–V NW solar cells are much more vital and promising, their current efficiencies are still much lower than the theoretically predicted maximum efficiency of 48%. In this review, the chapter focused on the synthesis processes of III–V nanowires, vapor-liquid-solid growing mechanisms, solar light harvesting of III–V nanowire solar cells, and designing high-efficiency and low-cost III–V nanowire solar cells.

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Advances in Polymer-Based Photovoltaic Cells: Review of Pioneering Materials, Design, and Device Physics

Cited by 3 publications

References 191 publications

Optimization of Efficient Perovskite-Si Hybrid Tandem Solar Cells

Optimization of Efficient Perovskite-Si Hybrid Tandem Solar Cells

First Principles Studies of Some Polymer-Pcbm Complexes for Pv Cells

Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency, Growth Mechanism and Design of III–V Nanowire-Based Solar Cells: Review

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