Visible to near-infrared down-shifting in Tm 3+ doped fluoride glasses for solar cells efficiency enhancement

Maalej, Olfa; Merigeon, Julien; Boulard, B.; Gîrtan, Mihaela

doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2016.07.047

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“…Many anti-reflective coatings have been designed to include a degree of radiation downshifting to increase the amount of incident usable light [8,9,61,62]. Coatings have been designed for windows which reflect IR radiation but were transparent to visible radiation.…”

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A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

Rebekah,Catherine¹,

Gîrtan

2023

Materials

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A review on ceramics, glasses and glass–ceramics as thin film protective coatings for solar cells is given. The different preparation techniques and the physical and chemical properties are presented in a comparative way. This study is useful for technologies involving solar cells and solar panel cell development at the industrial scale, because protective coatings and encapsulation play a major role in increasing the lifetime of solar panels and environmental protection. The aim of this review article is to give a summary of existing ceramic, glass, and glass–ceramic protective coatings and how they apply to solar cell technology: silicon, organic or perovskite cells. Moreover, some of these ceramic, glass or glass–ceramic layers were found to have dual functionality, such as providing anti-reflectivity or scratch resistance to give a two-fold improvement to the lifetime and efficiency of the solar cell.

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A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

Rebekah,Catherine¹,

Gîrtan

2023

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“…[115] However in practice, results in the absolute efficiencies of PV systems with down-converters are low (<0.1%). [116] , [117] , [118] , [76] This is due to the low absorption cross section of the downconverters developed to date and in some cases, to adverse light scattering. Moreover, it is to be enlightened that the quantification of such energy transfers is not an easy task and it is very difficult to discriminate between downconversion (two photons) and downshifting (one photon) mechanisms with currently available experimental set-ups.…”

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2019

Advanced Micro- And Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics

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“…Crystalline silicon (c-Si) is the most traditional and employed SC, and efficiently absorbs radiation close to its bandgap of 1.12 eV [15]. In other words, photons with higher wavelength than 1100 nm loses energy by transmission and, therefore, is not useful to generate photocurrent, called sub band-gap photons [16].…”

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Up-conversion mechanisms in Er3+-doped fluoroindate glasses under 1550 nm excitation for enhancing photocurrent of crystalline silicon solar cell

Castro

Manzani

Ribeiro

2018

Journal of Luminescence

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In this work, Er 3+-containing fluoroindate glasses were synthesized by the conventional melt-quenching method varying Er 3+ content from 0.1 to 7 mol%. The series of fluoroindate glass were investigated according to their luminescent properties. Upon excitation at 1550 nm, all glass samples showed green, red and near-infrared emissions centered at 550, 667 and 978 nm. Energy transfer upconversion (ETU) is the main mechanism responsible for the upconverted emissions and involves neighbour erbium ions. The highest near-infrared emission intensity at 1000 nm is observed for the glass sample containing 7 mol% of Er 3+ , which was used to evaluate the photovoltaic response of monocrystalline and monofacial silicon solar cell. This approach represents a beneficial strategy to stud spectral modification in upconverter materials.

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Visible to near-infrared down-shifting in Tm 3+ doped fluoride glasses for solar cells efficiency enhancement

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A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

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Up-conversion mechanisms in Er3+-doped fluoroindate glasses under 1550 nm excitation for enhancing photocurrent of crystalline silicon solar cell

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Visible to near-infrared down-shifting in Tm 3+ doped fluoride glasses for solar cells efficiency enhancement

Cited by 17 publications

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A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

A Selective Review of Ceramic, Glass and Glass–Ceramic Protective Coatings: General Properties and Specific Characteristics for Solar Cell Applications

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Up-conversion mechanisms in Er3+-doped fluoroindate glasses under 1550 nm excitation for enhancing photocurrent of crystalline silicon solar cell

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Up-conversion mechanisms in Er3+-doped fluoroindate glasses under 1550 nm excitation for enhancing photocurrent of crystalline silicon solar cell