How about silicon photonic solar cells
A dive into underwater solar cells | Nature Photonics
The concept of using solar cells to power devices such as AUVs has been around since the late 1990s. Blidberg and colleagues used two 30 W multicrystalline Si solar panels, each with an area of 0. ...
Light-trapping optimization in wet-etched silicon photonic crystal solar cells
We demonstrate, by numerical solution of Maxwell''s equations, near-perfect solar light-trapping and absorption over the 300–1100 nm wavelength band in silicon photonic crystal (PhC) architectures, amenable to fabrication by wet-etching and requiring less than 10 μm (equivalent bulk thickness) of crystalline silicon. ...
Ultrathin crystalline-silicon solar cells with embedded photonic …
Photonic crystals (PCs) can be used to trap light in thin-film solar cells to increase optical absorption. We fabricated ultrathin c-Si solar cells whose active Shrestha Basu Mallick, Mukul Agrawal, Artit Wangperawong, Edward S. Barnard, Kaushal K. Singh, Robert J. Visser, Mark L. Brongersma, Peter Peumans; Ultrathin crystalline-silicon solar …
Photonic crystals for highly efficient silicon single junction solar cells
Applying these photonic crystals to silicon solar cells can help to reduce the absorber thickness and thus to minimizing the unavoidable intrinsic recombination. From a simulation study, we can conclude that 31.6% is the maximum possible single junction solar cell efficiency for a 15 μm-thin substrate.
Photonic crystal light trapping: Beyond 30% conversion efficiency …
We review the recent progress in photonic crystal light-trapping architectures poised to achieve 28%–31% conversion efficiency in flexible 3–20 μm-thick, …
Enhanced efficiency of ultrathin (500nm)-film microcrystalline silicon photonic crystal solar cells
and titania solar cells Hong Nhung Tran, Van Hieu Nguyen, Bich Ha Nguyen et al.-Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with 10.5% Efficiency Realized by Improved Photon Absorption via Periodic Textures and Highly Transparent Conductive Oxide Hitoshi Sai et al.
Ambient Photonics presents indoor bifacial solar cell tech
From pv magazine USAAmbient Photonics will demonstrate the abilities of its first bifacial solar cell at CES 2024 in Las Vegas from Jan. 9 to Jan. 12. The low-light indoor bifacial solar cell ...
Ultra-thin crystalline silicon solar cell with a stepped pyramid ...
5 · Incorporating micro-nano structures onto the surface of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells to optimize their light absorption capability and improve photoelectric …
Passive Radiative Cooling of Silicon Solar Modules …
Improving the photoconversion efficiency of silicon solar cells is crucial to further the deployment of renewable electricity. Essential device properties such as lifetime, series resistance and optical properties must be …
III–V-on-silicon solar cells reaching 33
Silicon dominates the photovoltaic industry but the conversion efficiency of silicon single-junction solar cells is intrinsically …
Enhancement of Light Absorption in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells with Metallic Grating and One-Dimensional Photonic …
We design an effective light trapping scheme through engineering metallic gratings and one-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals (PhCs) to increase the optical path length of light within the solar cells. This incorporation can result in broadband optical absorption enhancement not only for transverse magnetic polarized light but also for …
The Design of Near-Perfect Spectrum-Selective Mirror …
When exposed to sunlight, crystalline silicon solar cells (CSSC) will not only generate electric energy but are also heated by solar radiation. Such a self-heating effect makes the working temperature of …
Photonic crystal based back reflectors for light management and enhanced absorption in amorphous silicon solar cells
Photonic crystal back-reflectors offer enhanced optical absorption in thin-film solar cells, without undesirable losses. We fabricated metallic photonic crystal back-reflectors using photolithography and reactive-ion etching and deposited a-Si:H solar cells. The photonic crystal has triangular lattice symmetry, a pitch of 760 nm, and was …
High symmetry nano-photonic quasi-crystals providing novel light management in silicon solar cells …
DOI: 10.1016/J.NANOEN.2021.105874 Corpus ID: 233888364 High symmetry nano-photonic quasi-crystals providing novel light management in silicon solar cells @article{Mercier2021HighSN, title={High symmetry nano-photonic quasi-crystals providing novel light management in silicon solar cells}, author={Thomas M. Mercier and Tasmiat …
Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics
Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in optical ... A component is a unit cell that is combined with other unit cells to build a circuit, such as a ...
Thirty Years in Silicon Photonics: A Personal View
The relative activation thresholds for a silicon solar cell are 2.24 eV (equivalent to two times the silicon band gap) and 1.12 eV (equivalent to the silicon band gap). The red line represents the internal quantum efficiency of a commercial Si solar cell. From Ref. [] (B)
Towards the Lambertian Limit in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells with Photonic Structures …
Such a PhC membrane does not exhibit enough modes to be the most effective structure on a wide spectral range as needed for solar cells. It has thus been proposed to use more complex patterns ...
A Comprehensive Photonic Approach for Solar Cell Cooling | ACS Photonics …
The heating of a solar cell has significant adverse consequences on both its efficiency and its reliability. Here to fully exploit the cooling potential of solar cells, we experimentally characterized the thermal radiation and solar absorption properties of current silicon solar cells and, on the basis of such experimental characterization, propose a …
Silicon solar cells: toward the efficiency limits
Current research and production trends aim at increasing the efficiency, and reducing the cost, of industrial modules. In this paper, we review the main concepts …
Photonic crystal microcrystalline silicon solar cells
4 Experimental Evaluation of Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Photonic Crystals Based on the results above, we next fabricated µc-Si solar-cell structures. First, we prepared square lattice, tapered-rod-type PC structures on a SiO 2 layer as described above.
Design of a high-efficiency perovskite solar cell based on photonic …
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained a lot of attention due to their high power conversion efficiency (PCE), low-cost materials, and simple manufacturing process. These cells can be improved further by using photonic crystals (PCs) which can increase light absorption. A PC-based perovskite solar cell was designed and simulated …
Photonic crystals for highly efficient silicon single junction solar cells
Applying these photonic crystals to silicon solar cells can help to reduce the absorber thickness and thus to minimizing the unavoidable intrinsic recombination. …
Towards 30% Power Conversion Efficiency in Thin-Silicon …
By direct numerical solution of Maxwell''s equations and the semiconductor drift-diffusion equations, we demonstrate solar-power conversion efficiencies in the …
Photon shifting and trapping in perovskite solar cells …
6 · Photonic protection from high-energy photons contributes to the market deployment of perovskite solar cell technology, and may become crucial for Space applications under AM0 illumination.
Absorption enhancement using photonic crystals for silicon thin film solar cells …
Consequently, this prevents the cell from absorbing low-energy photons in the solar energy spectrum [1,2]. Several light trapping and photon management methods have been suggested to improve the ...
Low-Light Energy Harvesting Solar Cells for Connected Devices
Up to three times greater power density compared to conventional indoor amorphous silicon solar cells. With high power density under a full range of artificial light sources including LED, fluorescent and incandescent, as well as diffused sunlight, our PV cells enable groundbreaking advances in the design, function, performance, sustainability, reliability …
Absorption enhancement using photonic crystals for silicon thin film solar cells …
Absorption enhancement using photonic crystals for silicon thin film solar cells Yeonsang Park 1,2, Emmanuel Drouard 1, Ounsi El Daif 1,2, Xavier Letartre 1, Pierre Viktorovitch 1, Alain Fave 2 ...
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