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Tribological and Optical Characteristics of Silica Coating for Anti-reflection Coating of Solar Cell  

Kim, Hae-Jin (연세대학교 기계공학과)
Kim, Dae-Eun (연세대학교 기계공학과)
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Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems / v.6, no.2, 2010 , pp. 68-73 More about this Journal
Abstract
The interest in acquiring high efficiency solar cells has been steadily increasing due to various advantages such as low-cost installation, pollution free and everlasting energy generation. In order to raise the cell efficiency, there has been a lot of effort to develop effective anti-reflection coatings. In this work, the main objective was to investigate the effects of particle size and annealing temperature of silica anti-reflection coatings to maximize the cell efficiency as well as reliability. It was shown that the light transmittance could be increased by a few percent over a certain range of wavelength using the silica coating. Also, the tribological properties of the coating could be improved through the annealing process, which led to better reliability of the coating.
Keywords
Solar Cell efficiency; anti-reflection coating; silica coating; wear; transmittance; reliability;
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