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Study of Light-induced Degradation in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells: Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell and Nano-quantum Dot Silicon Thin Film Solar Cell (박막 실리콘 태양전지의 광열화현상 연구: 비정질 실리콘 태양전지 및 나노양자점 실리콘 박막 태양전지)

  • Kim, Ka-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2019
  • Light induced degradation is one of the major research challenges of hydrogenated amorphous silicon related thin film silicon solar cells. Amorphous silicon shows creation of metastable defect states, originating from elevated concentration of dangling bonds during light exposure. The metastable defect states work as recombination centers, and mostly affects quality of intrinsic layer in solar cells. In this paper we present results of light induced degradation in thin film silicon solar cells and discussion on physical origin, mechanism and practical solutions of light induced degradation in thin film silicon solar cells. In-situ light-soaking IV measurement techniques are presented. We also present thin film silicon material with silicon nano-quantum dots embedded within amorphous matrix, which shows superior stability during light-soaking. Our results suggest that solar cell using silicon nano-quantum dots in abosrber layer shows superior stability under light soaking, compared to the conventional amorphous silicon solar cell.

Interband optical properties in wide band gap group-III nitride quantum dots

  • Bala, K. Jaya;Peter, A. John
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.13-27
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    • 2015
  • Size dependent emission properties and the interband optical transition energies in group-III nitride based quantum dots are investigated taking into account the geometrical confinement. Exciton binding energy and the optical transition energy in $Ga_{0.9}In_{0.1}N$/GaN and $Al_{0.395}In_{0.605}N$/AlN quantum dots are studied. The largest intersubband transition energies of electron and heavy hole with the consideration of geometrical confinement are brought out. The interband optical transition energies in the quantum dots are studied. The exciton oscillator strength as a function of dot radius in the quantum dots is computed. The interband optical absorption coefficients in GaInN/GaN and AlInN/AlN quantum dots, for the constant radius, are investigated. The result shows that the largest intersubband energy of 41% (10%) enhancement has been observed when the size of the dot radius is reduced from $50{\AA}$ to $25{\AA}$ of $Ga_{0.9}In_{0.1}N$/GaN ($Al_{0.395}In_{0.605}N$/AlN) quantum dot.

Fabrication of Silver Micro Lines by Ink-Jet Method (잉크젯 기법을 이용한 은 미세라인 형성)

  • Byun, Jong-Hoon;Seo, Dong-Soo;Choi, Yuungmin;Chang, Hyunju;Kong, Ki-Jeong;Lee, Jung-O;Ryu, Beyong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.41 no.10 s.269
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    • pp.788-791
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    • 2004
  • We have studied the fabrication of silver micro lines using the silver nano sol on ITO substrate by an ink-jet method. The average particles size of $10wt\%$ silver nano sol synthesized with polyelectrolytes was smaller than 10 nm. The pattern formation of silver nano sol on the substrate closely related with the contact angle of the silver nano sol. The dot shaped of silver nano sol on bare ITO substrate was formed due to the high contact angle of silver nano sol. When ITO substrates was treated with 100 ppm polyethylenimine for silver nano sol patterning, fine silver micro lines of $60{\sim}100{\mu}m$ width was fabricated by ink-jet method.

Effect of thiophenol-based ligands on photoluminescence of quantum dot nanocrystals

  • Moon, Hyungseok;Jin, Hoseok;Kim, Bokyoung;Kang, Hyunjin;Kim, Daekyoung;Chae, Heeyeop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.197-197
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    • 2016
  • Quantum dot nanocrystals(QDs) have been emerged as next generation materials in the field of energy harvesting, sensor, and light emitting because of their compatibility with solution process and controllable energy band gap. Especially, characteristics of color tuning and color purity make it possible for QDs to be used photoluminescence materials. Photoluminescence devices with QDs have been researched for a long time. Photoluminescence quantum yield(PL QY) is important factor that defines the performance of Photoluminescence devices. One of the ways to achieve better PL QY is ligand modification. If ligands are changed to proper electron donating group, electrons can be confined in the core which results in enhancement of PL QY. Because of the reason, short ligands are preferred for enhancing PL QY. Thiophenol-based ligands are shorter than typical alkyl chain ligands. In this study, the effect of thiophenol-based ligands with different functional groups are investigated. Four different types of thiophenol-based organic materials are used as organic capping ligand. QDs with bare thiophenol and fluorothiophenol show better quantum yield compared to oleic acid.

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상압 분위기에서 QD 제작 및 이를 응용한 비휘발성 QD 메모리 특성 평가

  • 안강호;안진홍;정혁
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.137-141
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    • 2005
  • Quantum dot(QD) 메모리용 silicon nano-particle을 corona 방전방법에 의해 상온에서 대량 발생하는 방법을 개발하였다. Silicon QD는 SiH4 가스를 코로나 방전 영역을 통과시켜 발생시켰으며, 코로나 전압은 2.75kV를 사용하였다. SiH4 몰농도 $0.33{\times}10^{-7}\;mol/l$ 일 경우 발생된 QD입자 크기는 약 10nm이며 기하학적 표준편차(geometric standard deviation)는 1.31이었다. 이 조건에서 nonvolatile quantum dot semiconductor memory (NVQDM)를 제작하였으며, 이렇게 제작된 NVQDM flat band voltage는 1.5 volt였다.

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