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Efficiency Analysis Solar Cell of the Dynamic Boat's by SPA (SPA에 의한 동적인 보트의 태양전지 효율 분석)

  • Han, Jong-Ho;Lee, Jang-Myung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.60 no.8
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    • pp.1529-1536
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    • 2011
  • Recently, worldwide government policy is pursuing saving energy and preservation. add to this, the solar cells are getting the spotlight nonpolluting energy source, using a variety of products for solar cell. in this paper, we'll make solar tracking system for suitable of dynamic boat. we knew that general boats are using fixed solar cell, it's first time to use tracking system of solar cells for boats so it is hard to application. To solve this problem in this paper we use to a magnetic compass and GPS for suitable solar tracking system of dynamic movement and to analyze fixed and tracking solar system. frist. solar tracking device is designed two-axis control system. one-axis control system is taken a magnetic compass for making efficiency defence solar tracking sensor, two-axis control system apply GPS latitude and longitude data for SPA(Solar position algorithm) so we know the azimuth and altitude. it analyze data value of accuracy comparison from result. so the proposed algorithm confirm to have validity.

Incident Angle Dependence of Quantum Efficiency in c-Si Solar Cell or a-Si Thin Film Solar Cell in BIPV System (광 입사각이 BIPV에 적용되는 단결정 또는 비정질 실리콘 태양전지의 양자효율에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Jeong-Wook;Son, Chan-Hee;Cho, Guang-Sup;Yoo, Jin-Hyuk;Kim, Joung-Sik;Park, Chang-Kyun;Cha, Sung-Duk;Kwon, Gi-Chung
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 2012
  • The conversion efficiency of solar cells depending on incident angle of light is important for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) applications. The quantum efficiency is the ratio of the number of charge carriers collected by the solar cell to the number of photons of a given energy shining on the solar cell. The analysis of angle dependence of quantum efficiencies give more information upon the variation of power output of a solar cell by the incident angle of light. The variations in power output of solar cells with increasing angle of incidence is different for the type of cell structures. In this study we present the results of the quantum efficiency measurement of single-crystalline silicon solar cells and a-Si:H thin-film solar cells with the angle of incidence of light. As a result, as the angle of incidence increases in single-crystalline silicon solar cells, quantum efficiency at all wavelength (300~1,100 nm) of light were reduced. But in case of a-Si:H thin-film solar cells, quantum efficiency was increased or maintained at the angle of incidence from 0 degree to about 40 degrees and dramatically decrease at more than 40 degrees in the range of visible light. This results of quantum efficiency with increasing incident angle were caused by haze and interference effects in thin-film structure. Thus, the structural optimization considering incident angle dependence of solar cells is expected to benefit BIPV.

Investigation of Al Back Contact and BSF Formation by In-situ TEM for Silicon Solar Cells

  • Park, Sungeun;Song, Jooyoung;Tark, Sung Ju;Kim, Young Do;Choi, Chel-Jong;Kwon, Soonwoo;Yoon, Sewang;Kim, Donghwan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.38.1-38.1
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    • 2010
  • The trend to thinner crystalline silicon solar wafers in production of solar cells investigates re-evolution of back surface field (BSF) formation. We have studied mechanisms of back contact formation in Al evaporation and screen printed Al paste for Si solar cells by TEM analysis. We observed that Si diffuse into Al during heat up. The Si diffusion process made vacancies in Si wafer. The Al began to seep into the Si wafer (Al spike). During heat down, the Al spike were shrink which causes the doped region (BSF).

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CIGS Thin Film Solar Cells by Electrodeposition

  • Saji, Viswanathan S.;Lee, Sang-Min;Lee, Chi-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2011
  • Thin film solar cells with chalcopyrite $CuInSe_2/Cu(In,Ga)Se_2$ absorber materials, commonly known as "CIS/CIGS solar cells" have recently attracted significant research interest as a potential alternative energy-harvesting system for the next generation. Among the different deposition techniques available for the CIGS absorber layer, electrodeposition is an effective and low cost alternative to vacuum based deposition methods. This article reviews progress in the area of CIGS solar cells with an emphasis on electrodeposited absorber layer. Existing challenges in fabrication of stoichiometric absorber layer are highlighted.

Influence of Physical Load on the Stability of Organic Solar Cells with Polymer : Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Nanolayers

  • Lee, Sooyong;Kim, Hwajeong;Kim, Youngkyoo
    • Current Photovoltaic Research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.48-53
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    • 2016
  • We report the effect of physical load on the stability of organic solar cells under physical loads. The active layers in organic solar cells were fabricated with bulk heterojunction films (BHJ) films of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and phenyl-$C_{61}$-butyric methyl ester. The loading time was varied up to 60 s by keeping the physical load constant. Results showed that the open circuit voltage was not influenced by the physical load but other solar cell parameters were sensitive to the loading time. The fill factor was very slightly increased at 15 s, while short circuit current density was well kept for 30 s. The power conversion efficiency was reasonably maintained for 45 s but became significantly decreased by the continuous loading for 60 s.

A study on selective emitter formed by single diffusion step for crystalline silicon solar cells (결정질 실리콘 태양전지에 적용될 Single diffusion step으로 형성한 selective emitter 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Jeong;Lee, Jae-Doo;Lee, Soo-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.234-234
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    • 2010
  • Most high efficiency silicon solar cells use a passivated selective emitter. It have been an important research subject for crystalline silicon solar cells for decades. It is being used in production for high efficiency solar cells. Most of the selective emitter process require expensive extra masking, etching steps, and a double diffusion process making selective emitters not cost effective. In this paper, we study method for single diffusion step selective emitter process as an alternative to not cost effective double diffusion process. Cost effective selective emitter that the efficiency should be increased significantly (mare than 0.2%) and that the process should simple, robust and cheap.

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Fabrication and Characterization of Solar Cells Using Cast Polycrystalline Silicon (Cast Poly-Si을 이용한 태양전지 제작 및 특성)

  • 구경완;소원욱;문상진;김희영;홍봉식
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.29A no.2
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 1992
  • Polycrystalline silicon ingots were manufactured using the casting method for polycrystalline silicon solar cells. These ingots were cut into wafers and ten n$^{+}$p type solar cells were made through the following simple process` surface etching, n$^{+}$p junction formation, metalization and annealing. For the grain boundary passivation, the samples were oxidized in O$_2$ for 5 min. at 80$0^{\circ}C$ prior to diffusion in Ar for 100 min. at 95$0^{\circ}C$. The conversion efficiency of polycrystalline silicon solar cells made from these wafers showed about 70-80% of those of the single crystalline silicon solar cell and superior conversion efficiency, compared to those of commercial polycrystalline wafers of Wacker Chemie. The maximum conversion efficiency of our wafers was indicated about 8%(without AR coating) in spite of such a simple fabrication method.

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Dynamic Response of Charge Recombination from Post-Annealing Process in Organic Solar Cell Using Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy

  • Jeong, Hanbin;Yun, Suk-Jin;Lee, Jae Kwan
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.275-280
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    • 2016
  • Intensity modulated photovoltage spectroscopy (IMVS) analysis of organic solar cells (OSCs) with a bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) film composed of P3HT and $PC_{61}BM$ was performed. The dynamic response of charge recombination by the post-annealing approach in $P3HT/PC_{61}BM$ BHJ solar cells characterized by IMVS demonstrated that post-annealing reduced the recombination of electron carriers in the device. The recombination times of $P3HT/PC_{61}BM$ BHJ solar cells post-annealed at room temperature, 80, 120, and $140^{\circ}C$ were 0.009, 0.020, 0.024, and 0.030 ms, respectively, at a short-circuit current of 0.18 mA. The results indicated that the IMVS analysis can be effectively used as powerful.

Transparent conductive oxide layers-embedding heterojunction Si solar cells (투명접합을 이용한 이종 태양전지)

  • Yun, Ju-Hyung;Kim, Mingeun;Park, Yun Chang;Anderson, Wayne A.;Kim, Joondong
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.47.2-47.2
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    • 2011
  • High-efficient transparent conductive oxide (TCO) film-embedding Si heterojunction solar cells were fabricated. An improved crystalline indium-tin-oxide (ITO) film was grown on an Al-doped ZnO (AZO) template upon hetero-epitaxial growth. This double TCO-layered Si solar cell provided significantly enhanced efficiency of 9.23 % as compared to the single TCO/Si devices. The effective arrangement of TCO films (ITO/AZO) provides a good interface, resulting in the enhanced photovoltaic performances. It discusses TCO film arrangement scheme for efficient TCO-layered heterojunction solar cells.

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Doping-free Transparent Conducting Schottky Type Heterojunction Solar Cells

  • Kim, Joon-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.209-209
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    • 2012
  • High-efficient transparent conductive oxide (TCO) film-embedding Si heterojunction solar cells were fabricated. An additional doping was not applied for heterojunction solar cells due to the spontaneous junction formation between TCO films and an n-type Si substrate. Three different TCO coatings were formed by sputtering method for an Al-doped ZnO (AZO) film, an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) film and double stacks of ITO/AZO films. An improved crystalline ITO film was grown on an AZO template upon hetero-epitaxial growth. This double TCO films-embedding Si heterojunction solar cell provided significantly enhanced efficiency of 9.23% as compared to the single TCO/Si devices. The effective arrangement of TCO films (ITO/AZO) provides benefits of a lower front contact resistance and a smaller band offset to Si leading enhanced photovoltaic performances. This demonstrates a potential scheme of the effective TCO film-embedding heterojunction Si solar cells.

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