• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.70-73
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• 2017

We investigated n-i-p type single junction hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxide solar cells. These cells were without front surface texture or back reflector. Maximum power point efficiency of these cells showed that an optimized device structure is needed to get the best device output. This depends on the thickness and defect density ($N_d$) of the active layer. A typical 10% photovoltaic device conversion efficiency was obtained with a $N_d=8.86{\times}10^{15}cm^{-3}$ defect density and 630 nm active layer thickness. Our investigation suggests a correlation between defect density and active layer thickness to device efficiency. We found that amorphous silicon solar cell efficiency can be improved to well above 10%.

• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제35D권1호
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• pp.59-65
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• 1998

In order to simulataneously achieve surface type conversion and sulfur passivation of p-type InP, a Ha$_{2}$S plasma dry passivation technique was firstly proposed and successfully applied to the fabrication of ITO/InP solar cells. This new technique was expected to improve the performance of solar cells. The devices, fabricated by changing the process parameters such as RF power and plasma exposure time, were characterized and PL measurements were performed to investigate the passivation effects. As a result, H$_{2}$S plasma treated solar cells demonstrated better performance than that of (NH$_{4}$)$_{2}$S$_{x}$ treated ones.s.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.117.1-117.1
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• 2011

We have demonstrated Forst-type resonance energy transfer (FRET) in the quasi-solid type dye-sensitized solar cells between organic fluorescence materials as an energy donor doped in polymeric gel electrolyte and ruthenium complex as an energy acceptor on surface of $TiO_2$. The strong spectral overlap of emission/absorption of energy donor and acceptor is required to get high FRET efficiency. The judicious choice of energy donor allows the enhancement of light harvesting characters of energy acceptor in quasi-solid dye sensitized solar cells which increase the power conversion efficiency. The enhanced light harvesting effect by the judicious choice/design of the fluorescence materials and sensitizing dyes permits the enhancement of photovoltaic performance of DSSC.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.228-228
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• 2013

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) have attracted great interests as they offer high energyconversion efficiencies at low cost. For the conventional fabrication of DSSCs, high temperature sintering is required for the construction of interconnect $TiO_2$. However, more simplified process which can be applicable to large-sized solar cells module, is strongly necessary for the commercialization of DSSCs. In this work, we developed novel sintering method using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), which can replace the conventional high temperature sintering methods. The photovoltaic properties of DSSCs utilizing IPL methods will be reported.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2013

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a unique semiconductor material that exhibits numerous useful properties for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and other applications. Various thin-film growth techniques have been used to produce nanowires, nanorods, nanotubes, nanotips, nanosheets, nanobelts and terapods of ZnO. These unique nanostructures unambiguously demonstrate that ZnO probably has the richest family of nanostructures among all materials, both in structures and in properties. The nanostructures could have novel applications in solar cells, optoelectronics, sensors, transducers and biomedical sciences. This article reviews the various nanostructures of ZnO grown by various techniques and their application in DSSCs. The application of ZnO nanowires, nanorods in DSSCs became outstanding, providing a direct pathway to the anode for photo-generated electrons thereby suppressing carrier recombination. This is a novel characteristic which increases the efficiency of ZnO based dye-sensitized solar cells.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.264-267
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• 2007

It is important to reduce optical losses from front surface reflection to improve the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells. Surface texturing by isotropic etching with acid solution based on HF and $HNO_3$ is one of the promising methods that can reduce surface reflectance. Anisotropic texturing with alkali solution is not suitable for multicrystalline silicon wafers because of its various grain orientations. In this paper, we textured multicrystalline silicon wafers by simple wet chemical etching using acid solution to reduce front surface reflectance. After that, surface morphology of textured wafer was observed by Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope(AFM), surface reflectance was measured in wavelength from 400nm to 1000nm. We obtained 29.29% surface reflectance by isotropic texturing with acid solution in wavelength from 400nm to 1000nm for fabrication of multicrystalline silicon solar cells.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.190.2-190.2
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• 2014

We report the origin of the improvement of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of hybrid thin-film solar cells when a soluble C60 derivative, [6,6]-phenyl-$C_{61}$-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), is introduced as a hole-blocking layer. The PCBM layer could establish better interfacial contact by decreasing the reverse ark-saturation current density, resulting in a decrease in the probability of carrier recombination. The power conversion efficiency of this optimized device reached a maximum value of 8.34% and is the highest yet reported for hybrid thin-film solar cells.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1987년도 정기총회 및 창립40주년기념 학술대회 학회본부
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• pp.203-206
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• 1987

$Ga_{1-x}Al_xAs$ solar cells have been fabricated by LPE and characterized as a function of operating temperature from $25^{\circ}C$ to $l30^{\circ}C$. Open circuit voltage decreases linearly with increasing temperature by $1.4mv/^{\circ}C$, while degradation of silicon solar cells is about $2.2-2.5\;mv/^{\circ}C$. Experimental results regarding to GaAS solar cells, such as saturation current, ideality factors and fill factors are characterized as a function of operating temperature.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1571-1572
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• 2009

Polymer solar cells were fabricated with gravure printing process and the effect of thermal annealing of gravure printed organic layer was investigated. The layer structure of polymer solar cells is glass / ITO / hole transfer layer / active layer / Al structure was fabricated. For the active layer, 1:1 ratio of poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) mixture was applied. The P3HT/PCBM blend was gravure printed onto the substrates. The effect of thermal annealing was investigated by changing annealing time and the number of printing. Maximum 3.6% of power conversion efficiency was achieved with gravure printing of organic layer and thermal annealing in this work.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.37-49
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• 2008

태양전지 기판의 원료인 폴리실리콘의 공급부족은 태양광발전산업의 비약적인 발전에 있어 최대 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 태양전지 제조에 충분한 순도로 폴리실리콘을 값싸게 제조할 수 있게 하는 공정기술의 개발은 태양광발전의 가격 경쟁력과 활용범위를 크게 증가시키는 중요한 계기가 될 수 있다. 본 총설에서는 태양전지용 폴리실리콘 제조를 위해 현재 이용 가능한 기술들을 정리해보고, 최근에 주목받고 있는 유동층 석출공정기술과 관련하여 응용범위 확대를 가로막고 있는 주요 기술적 장애요인에 대하여 중점적으로 소개하고자 한다.