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Materials
2015,
8,
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Figure 6. Normalized generation rate of silicon cells with/without REDC NP coating layer.
Figure 7. Electric field distribution (a) before
and (b) after REDC NP coating.
Electric field distribution before and after adding a REDC NP layer is shown in Figure 6a,b,
respectively. There is some concentrated electric field between the solar cell and the REDC NP
layer, with a slight difference
in the
electric field maximum
value
which was
about
0.1340%. That
could
give a conclusion that the added layer of REDC NPs could have a slight optical impact in
concentrating the electric fields inside the solar cells, in addition to the interface region between the
cell and the coating layer. This confirms the mutual impact of the improved optical conversions and
conductivity due to the REDC NP coating layer, with the dominant effect of the conductivity due to
the hopping
mechanism of the formed
oxygen vacancies
inside
REDC NPs.
3. Experimental Section
Figure 6. Normalized generation rate of silicon cells with/without REDC NP
coating layer.
Materials
2015,
8,
page–page
Figure 6. Normalized generation rate of silicon cells with/without REDC NP coating layer.
Figure 7. Electric field distribution (a) before
and (b) after REDC NP coating.
Electric field distribution before and after adding a REDC NP layer is shown in Figure 6a,b,
respectively. There is some concentrated electric field between the solar cell and the REDC NP
layer, with a sligh differ nce
in the
elec ric field maximum
value
which was
about
0.1340%. That
could
give a conclusion that the added layer of REDC NPs could have a slight optical impact in
concentrating the electric fields inside the solar cells, in addition to the interface region between the
cell and the coating layer. This confirms the mutual impact of the improved optical conversions and
conductivity due to the REDC NP coating layer, with the dominant effect of the conductivity ue to
the hopping
mechanism of the formed
oxygen vacancies
inside
REDC NPs.
3. Experimental Section
3.1.
Nanoparticles Synthesis
Reduced erbium‐doped ceria nanoparticles have been synthesized using the chemical
precipitation technique which is a relatively simple and inexpensive synthesis process [22]. Cerium
(III) chloride (heptahyd ate, 99.9%, Sigma‐Aldrich Chemicals, St. Louis, MO, USA) of weight
0.485
g
and
erbium
(III)
chloride
(heptahydrate,
99.9%,
Sigma‐Aldrich
Chemicals,
St.
Louis,
MO,
USA)
(0.015 g) are dissolved in de‐ionized (DI) water (40 mL) to obtain a 3% weight ratio of erbium to
cerium in the synthesized nanoparticles. This weight ratio is selected after a study by the authors of
Figure7. Electricfielddistribution(a)beforeand(b) afterREDCNPcoating.
ElectricfielddistributionbeforeandafteraddingaREDCNPl yer isshownin
Figure6a,b, respectively. There iss meconcentratedelectricfieldbetweenthesolar
cell and the REDC NP layer, with a slight difference in the electric field maximum
value which was about 0.1340%. That could give a conclusion that the added layer
of REDC NPs could have a sligh optical impact in concentrating the el ctric fields
inside the solar cells, in addition to the interface region between the cell and the
coating layer. Thisconfirmsthemutual impactof the improvedopticalconversions
181
Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Devices
- Titel
- Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Devices
- Autor
- Joshua M. Pearce
- Herausgeber
- MDPI
- Ort
- Basel
- Datum
- 2016
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-03842-217-4
- Abmessungen
- 17.0 x 24.4 cm
- Seiten
- 216
- Schlagwörter
- Perovskite, Plasmonics, Nanostructured Materials, Anti-Reflection Coatings, Transparent Conductive Oxides, Amorphous Silicon, Dye-sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) Materials, Organic Photovoltaic Materials, Solar Energy Materials
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
- Technik