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Erlina Rosa Evasari, Rosa (author)High-performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted great attention from researchers around the world. Rapid researches and developments of PSCs are shown by the increase of its efficiency from 3.8% in 2009 to a new world record of 22.4% in 2017. Hysteresis phenomenon in current density voltage (J-V) is one of the challenges occurring...master thesis 2018
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Payani, Manoj (author)External Quantum Efficiency (EQE) is an important performance measure parameter of a solar cell. EQE characterization gives deeper insights into the opto-electrical properties, current generation and recombination mechanisms in solar cells. Conventional EQE characterization of solar cells are done using a monochromator and lock-in amplifier....master thesis 2018
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Suresh, Sunil (author)Having an absorber layer thickness below 1 micrometre for a regular copper indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS) solar cell reduces the pathways for electron collection which lead to reduced recombination in the bulk absorber layer. Additionally, it reduces material costs and production time. Yet, having such a thin absorber reduces the cell...master thesis 2018
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Zhao, Yiran (author)As a new face of PV industry, bifacial technology offers the utmost utilization of reflected light while efforts are still required to further improve its cell efficiency. The objective of this thesis project is to fabricate bifacial solar cell with poly-Si passivating contacts only underneath metal grids. An advanced bifacial architecture is...master thesis 2018
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Garcia Goma, Elias (author)Accurate Annual Energy Yield (AEY) predictions can mean important savings due to optimization of energy generation for both particular and utility scale PV systems. <br/>However, currently available commercial models fall short to faithfully reproduce complex designs, specially involving bifacial modules, where albedo gains are relevant. <br/...master thesis 2018
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Nepal, Pramod (author)Ever since the commercial growth of PV installations, soiling has been a crucial factor to decrease its performance ratio. Environmental factors such as irradiation, wind, rainfall, and back module temperature affect the yield of a system, but, in many environments, soiling of PV modules carries the largest impact. Cost effective soiling...master thesis 2018
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Schepel, Veikko (author)The growing importance of solar energy, or photovoltaic (PV) energy, worldwide in recent years has increased the need for publicly available, reliable information on PV technology. To this end, the PVMD group launched its own solar energy website titled the Dutch PV Portal (PVP 1.0) in 2014. This thesis centred around the expansion of the PVP 1...master thesis 2018
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le Boucher d'Hérouville, Guillaume (author)High efficiency silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have already reached more than 26% (Yoshikawa et al., 2017) efficiency when tunnel oxide passivated contacts solar cells just broke the 26% barrier at the beginning of February 2018 (ISFH, 2018). For such devices, major losses occur at both the front and rear contacts where parasitic...master thesis 2018
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Sönmez, Furkan (author)Despite the fact that the price per watt-peak for photovoltaic modules are decreasing rapidly, there is a large population of people which have still not implemented photovoltaic technology in their everyday lives. An important reason why PV is still not the main source of electrical energy for these people is the uncertainty that comes with...master thesis 2017
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Calcabrini, Andres (author)The present thesis project approaches the integration of small-scale PV systems in urban environments and the prediction of the energy yield. It aims to find a simple method energy yield prediction model that accounts for the effects of the surroundings on the generated power.<br/><br/>The most accurate existing frameworks that are used to...master thesis 2017
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Massacesi, Camilla (author)Wafer-based crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells currently dominate the photovoltaic (PV) market with high-thermal budget (T > 700 ∘C) architectures (e.g. i-PERC and PERT). However, also low-thermal (T < 250 ∘C) budget heterojunction architecture holds the potential to become mainstream owing to the achievable high efficiency and the...master thesis 2017
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de Groot, Yvar (author)To improve the performance of the high efficiency c-Si solar cells within the PVMD group several front metallization methods were investigated. The objective was to decrease the series resistance, which would lead to an increase in FF and thus efficiency. Three different cell structure are examined; i) a poly-poly cell with SiN¬x as an ARC, ii)...master thesis 2017
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Bronkhorst, Joris (author)The amount of photovoltaic (PV) systems in the world is growing rapidly. The designing process is however still old fashioned and mostly done by hand. Creating a method to automatically design these PV systems can help to stimulate this growing market even further. In this thesis a research is done<br/>into the development of an automatic PV...master thesis 2017
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Ge, H. (author)To improve the conversion efficiency of c-Si solar cells, it is crucial to quench the recombination losses at c-Si/metal interface. Such recombination losses are able to be reduced by using carrier-selective passivating contacts by means of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si)/tunneling silicon oxide ...master thesis 2017
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Zhang, Y. (author)Crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells based on the polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) passivating contact is becoming one of the most promising solar cell structures that enable high efficiency due to the minimization of metal contact recombination. The interdigitated back contact (IBC) crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells based on poly-Si...master thesis 2017
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van Doorene, S. (author)In the ongoing search for (new) highly efficient and cheap photovoltaic materials, orthorhombic barium disilicide has sparked recent interest. Studies have shown that BaSi2 exhibits good electrical properties, a bandgap of 1.3 eV and a high absorption coefficient. However, these studies have mainly been performed on molecular beam epitaxially...master thesis 2017
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Prabu Harsarapama, A. (author)As the number of large scale photovoltaic power plants (which also known as solar parks) is growing in recent years, standard activities related to the system such as the operation and maintenance of the plant and grid management have become more crucial. In order to ensure a standard quality of these activities, accurate irradiance measurement...master thesis 2017
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Wibowo Setia Budhi, A. (author)Achieving high efficiency solar cells becomes more interesting in order to make solar cell become cost competitive to the other renewable energy sources. Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) which has a requirement to be chemically stable, high transparency and high conductivity, and also application for light trapping application makes it...master thesis 2016
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Stobbe, B. (author)The modern world is facing challenges like the depletion of fossil fuels and the rising demand of energy while decreasing CO2 emission to counteract climate change. As the vast majority of mankind populates (mega-)cities, one option of tackling these challenges could be the installation of photovoltaic/thermal(PV/T) hybrid-solar systems on the...master thesis 2016