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Eringfeld, Olav (author)Renewable energy sources, such as thin-film silicon solar cells, show a lot of potential as the technology promises low production temperatures, low cost and low material usage. Other benefits are the flexible and very lightweight modules that can be fabricated, which enable a wide variety of applications. Other benefits include the low...master thesis 2024
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Ghayeni, Seyed Mehdi (author)Thin-film silicon solar cells are an innovative approach to utilizing solar energy. Thanks to their flexibility, lower material usage, and production cost, they have the potential to be used in a range of applications. The conversion efficiencies of thin-film silicon solar cells need to be improved to make them commercially viable. This involves...master thesis 2023
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Muthaiyan Karthikeyen, Shriram (author)Thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) technology has an enormous potential in the solar power market due to its light weight, flexibility and ease of integration. This enables it to have a wide range of applications like roof top and building integrated installations making it more sustainable. Some of the other key benefits of thin-film silicon...master thesis 2023
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Dhavle, Shloka Atul (author)Thin film silicon solar cells are a type of photovoltaic technology with the advantage of having thin layers of silicon to generate electricity. Unlike traditional crystalline silicon solar cells, which use thick silicon wafers, thin-film silicon solar cells use amorphous silicon that can be made with much thinner layers of silicon. This allows...master thesis 2023
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Mishra, Shantiswaroop (author)This report emphasizes the importance of implementing quality control methods in the production machines at HyET Solar for assessing the quality of deposited materials. The focus is on two key steps: the deposition of the front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer and the deposition of silicon layers. Models were developed to characterize...master thesis 2023
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Sambamurthy, Sriram (author)The world is in need for an energy transition from the usage of fossil fuels to renewable energy source to reduce the harmful effects climate and health. Focusing on accelerating the research and development of photovoltaic technologies is an important step towards energy transition. The thin-film silicon solar modules has shown a great...master thesis 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Wiering, M. (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Padmakumar, G. (author), Sambamurthy, S. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Surface textures that result in high optical yields are crucial for high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) devices. In this work three different texturing approaches are presented that result in smooth concave structures devoid of sharp features. Such features can sustain the crack-free growth of device quality nano- to poly-crystalline materials...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Parasramka, Harsh (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Two terminal multi-junction (MJ) photovoltaic (PV) devices are well established concepts to increase the solar-to-electrical power conversion in reference to single PV junctions. In multi-junction PV devices two consecutive sub-cells are interconnected using a tunnel recombination junction (TRJ) in which the light excited holes of one sub...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Miedema, Sander (author), Blackstone, Thijs (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)A logical next step for achieving a cost price reduction per Watt peak of photovoltaics (PV) is multijunction PV devices. In two-terminal multijunction PV devices, the photo-current generated in each subcell should be matched. Intermediate reflective layers (IRLs) are widely employed in multijunction devices to increase reflection at the...journal article 2022
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Murali, Arvind Ganesh (author)Thin-film solar cells are second-generation solar cells and they are gaining more traction than the first-generation c-Si solar cells. This is due to the advantages they have over conventional solar cells. The advantages are that they are lightweight, flexible, cheaper and also have better aesthetics than conventional solar cells. Thin-film...master thesis 2021
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Rajagopal, Devika (author)Thin-film photovoltaic technologies are gaining momentum over the currently dominated crystalline silicon technologies. In addition to the competitive prices, flexible thin-film technology especially has the added advantage such as in building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) due to its flexibility and light weight. HyET Solar B.V. is a company...master thesis 2020
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Parasramka, H. (author)Multijunction devices based on thin film silicon are useful for a range of applications due to their low costs, better performance at higher temperatures, potential for flexibility, and light weight. One particularly interesting application of such devices is in solar-to-fuel conversion. In light of this, the goal of this thesis was to suggest...master thesis 2020
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Spaans, E.M. (author)The future of our energy supply cannot continue to depend on the use of exhaustible fossil fuels. The successful transition to a society powered by renewable energy sources is one of the major challenges our current generation faces. Renewable systems will only fully establish themselves if high conversion efficiencies can be obtained at a...master thesis 2020
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Nawaratne, Sajith (author)Thin film solar cell technologies are gaining more favour over first generation PV technologies such as monocrystalline silicon PV modules. This is due to their special characteristics such as lightweight, flexibility and reduced resource consumption. HyET Solar is a Netherlands based company that makes thin film amorphous silicon modules using...master thesis 2020
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Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Yang, G. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)In this work we present a theoretical analysis of charge carriers transport mechanisms in IBC-SHJ solar cells. The concepts of contact and transport selectivity are correlated through the band bending at c-Si interface and are used to identify thin-film silicon parameters affecting fill factor (FF) and open-circuit voltage (V<sub>OC</sub>)....journal article 2018
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Vismara, R. (author), Dane Linssen, N. P. (author), Wang, Ken X. (author), Fan, Shanhui (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)We present a modelling study of thin silicon based solar cells endowed with periodic and decoupled front/back textures. After careful optimization, the proposed device models exhibit absorption beyond the Lambertian light trapping limit for a wide range of light angles of incidence. The advanced light management scheme is applied to (nano...conference paper 2018
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Si, F.T. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)The benefit of two-terminal multijunction solar cells in regard to the number<br/>of junctions (subcells) is critically evaluated. The optical and electrical losses<br/>inherent in the construction of multijunction cells are analyzed using information<br/>from thin-film silicon photovoltaics as a representative case. Although<br/>the...journal article 2017
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Tan, H. (author)Direct conversion of sunlight into electricity is one of the most promising approaches to provide sufficient renewable energy for humankind. Solar cells are such devices which can efficiently generate electricity from sunlight through the photovoltaic effect. Thin-film silicon solar cells, a type of photovoltaic (PV) devices which deploy the...doctoral thesis 2015
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Yang, G. (author)In this thesis we present results of the development of n-i-p thin-film silicon solar cells on randomly textured substrates, aiming for highly efficient micromorph solar cells (i.e., solar cells based on a ?c-Si:H bottom cell and a-Si:H top cell). For the efficiency of n-i-p thin-film silicon solar cells the interfaces between different layers...doctoral thesis 2015
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Han, L. (author)Long term concerns about climate change and fossil fuel depletion will require a transition towards energy systems powered by solar radiation or other renewable sources. Novel concepts based on silicon materials and devices are investigated for applications in the next generation photovoltaic (PV) devices and photoelectrochemical (PEC) water...doctoral thesis 2015
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