標題: Experimental and Theoretical Study of Low-Cost Hydrothermally Grown Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell
作者: Li, Hung-Hsien
Lin, Albert S.
Zhong, Yan-Kai
Fu, Sze-Ming
Lai, Shih-Yun
Tseng, Chi-Wei
Lin, Shang-Ru
Lai, Wei-Ming
Lin, Yu-Chiun
Li, Yu-Ren
Cheng, Huang-Chung
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
關鍵字: Nanowire;photovoltaic cells;silicon;light trapping
公開日期: 2013
摘要: The low cost and high absorbance is the two most important considerations for thin-film silicon photovoltaics. In this work, aluminum doped zinc oxide(AZO) nanowire is grown by low cost hydrothermal method and nano-structured amorphous silicon(alpha-Si) solar cell is realized on these AZO nanowire substrate. The experimental result shows superior light trapping property compared to conventional planar structure with 18.83% improvement in photocurrent. Simulation result shows the required thickness for full absorption for high aspect ratio AZO nanowire solar cell is similar to 0.3 square m, much thinner than planar type solar cell. The calculation reveals that solar cell absorbance increases with the nanowire length and packing density, indicating material volume is the first order effect for nanowire solar cells. The proposed low-cost AZO nanowire array amorphous silicon solar cell is very promising for future nanostructured silicon photovoltaics.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/25002
ISBN: 978-1-4799-3299-3
ISSN: 0160-8371
期刊: 2013 IEEE 39TH PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE (PVSC)
起始頁: 589
結束頁: 593
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