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Kalpoe, Prashand (author)The journey towards increasing thin film solar cell efficiency is a continuously ongoing one, where each layer in the cell adds its own contributions and limitations. The transparent conductive oxide (TCO) is the first layer to encounter incident light on these cells and therefore needs to fulfil the requirement of high transparency. Carriers...master thesis 2023
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Karagiorgis, Savvas (author)A major transition became necessary for the maritime industry to meet the IMO’s targets for mitigating the carbon footprint of the sector by at least 50% by 2050. One of the promising methods to lower the emissions is the ship's hybridization. An enormous increase in pilot and demonstration projects for that purpose is being observed. This...master thesis 2022
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Sterk, Reinout (author)Due to more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission regulations in the maritime industry, solutions are being sought to decrease the GHG emissions of crew transfer vessels used in offshore wind farms. Multiple alternative fuels and power generating systems can be used to decrease these emissions. In this research, a comparative study is...master thesis 2022
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Zhang, Jing (author)In recent decades, there has been increasing concern about the impact of climate change on the earth. Various countries are actively developing sustainable energy technologies, of which solar cell is one of the new energy sources with the most attention. This thesis is based on poly−Si(O<sub>x</sub>) cells consisting of SiO<sub>x</sub>/poly−Si(O...master thesis 2022
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Han, C. (author)In the efficiency-driven photovoltaic (PV) industry, the market dominating crystalline silicon (c-Si) technology has been developing towards PV devices with carrier-selective passivating contacts (CSPCs). Especially, the silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell, based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) contact stacks, and the poly-Si...doctoral thesis 2022
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Rath, Chinmaya (author)With an increase in population, there is increasing pressure and higher demand in world energy production. Even though there is a high dependency on fossil fuels renewable energy usage has seen a sharp rise in recent years. Solar energy is a major player and contributes a lot to this field. The thin-film solar cell which is a part of second...master thesis 2022
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Han, C. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), van Duffelen, Max (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Reducing indium consumption, which is related to the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) use, is a key challenge for scaling up silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology to terawatt level. In this work, we developed bifacial SHJ solar cells with reduced TCO thickness. We present three types of In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-based TCOs,...journal article 2022
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van Duffelen, Max (author)Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) play important roles in information and energy technologies. In the photovoltaic (PV) community, they are normally required to provide sufficient lateral carrier transport towards metal electrodes at the illumination side. Thus, a tradeoff between optical and electrical<br/>properties is of critical...master thesis 2021
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Bakker, N.J. (author), Åhman, Hanna Nilsson (author), Burgers, Teun (author), Barreau, Nicolas (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Theelen, Mirjam (author)Partial shading of monolithically interconnected Cu(In,Ga)Se<sub>2</sub> (CIGSe) modules can lead to the formation of reverse bias induced defects. These localized defects permanently reduce the output of the PV module. The formation and propagation mechanisms of these defects is studied. Understanding these mechanisms can help to prevent or...journal article 2020
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Klaassen, Nine (author), Scheepens, A.E. (author), Flipsen, Bas (author), Vogtländer, J.G. (author)In search of sustainable business models, product innovation must fulfil a double objective: the new product must have a higher (market) value, and at the same time a lower eco-burden. To achieve this objective, it is an imperative that the value, the total costs of ownership, and the eco-burden of a product are analysed at the beginning of...journal article 2020
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Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Montes, Ana (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Schut, H. (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)In high-efficiency silicon solar cells featuring carrier-selective passivating contacts based on ultrathin SiOx/poly-Si, the appropriate implementation of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layers is of vital importance. Considerable deterioration in passivation quality occurs for thin poly-Si-based devices owing to the sputtering damage...journal article 2020
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Karanasios, Alexandros (author)Nowadays the interest for environmental issues is steadily gaining ground. Inescapably, the shipping industry, is also called to contribute its fair share towards the reduction of air pollution. Harbour tugboats need to comply both with international but also with local exhaust air emission regulations, which are anticipated to become more...master thesis 2019
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Oostdam, Martijn (author)Hydrogen as an energy carrier is seen as an important option to reduce the CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in the transport sector. However, limited research is done into the possibilities of using a hydrogen truck in freight road transport. This article considers the following question: <i>Under which...master thesis 2019
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Han, C. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Yang, G. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Tijssen, M. (author), Bento Montes, A.R. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Broadband transparent conductive oxide layers with high electron mobility (μ<sub>e</sub>) are essential to further enhance crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell performances. Although metallic cation-doped In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> thin films with high μ<sub>e</sub> (>60 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>) have been extensively...journal article 2019
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Huismans, hilde (author)In this thesis a simplified vehicle model was developed using linear correlations between incidental power demand and energy usage at four different stages: 1) propulsion, 2) propulsion during braking, 3) regenerative braking, and 4) maximum regenerative power. In the model the efficiencies of: charging and discharging of the battery, the...master thesis 2018
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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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Jäger, K. (author), Schulte, K. (author), Bittkau, K. (author), Ermes, A.M. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Pieters, B.E. (author)The scattering properties of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layers are fundamentally related to the performance of thin film silicon solar cells. In this study we introduce an experimental technique to access light scattering properties at textured TCO-silicon interfaces. Therefore we prepared a sample with a polished microcrystalline...conference paper 2011
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Bolman, B.F.A. (author)Within thin-film silicon solar cells, the so-called Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) plays an important role. The optimization of TCOs is a very meticulous process since these thin layers not only need to be both highly transparent and conductive, but are also used for light management; that is manipulating the path of the light through the...master thesis 2010
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