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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010)

Photovoltaic enhancement of Si solar cells by assembled carbon nanotubes

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353612
Yafei Zhang
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
Yanfang Wang
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
N. Chen
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
Yanyan Wang
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
Yaozhong Zhang
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
Zhihua Zhou
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China
Liangming Wei
Key laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of the Ministry of Education, National Key Laboratory of Nano/Micro Fabrication Technology, Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P R China

Corresponding Author: Yanfang Wang

wangyanfang@sjtu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010), Article Number: 22-25

Abstract

Photovoltaic conversion was enhanced by directly assemble of a network of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) onto the surface of n-p junction silicon solar cells. When the density of SWNTs increased from 50 to 400 tubes μm−2, an enhancement of 3.92% in energy conversion efficiency was typically obtained. The effect of the SWNTs network is proposed for trapping incident photons and assisting electronic transportation at the interface of silicon solar cells.

Keywords

Solar cell Carbon nanotube Photovoltaic enhancement Heterojunction
Zhang, Yafei, Yanfang Wang, N. Chen, Yanyan Wang, Yaozhong Zhang, Zhihua Zhou, and Liangming Wei. 2010. “Photovoltaic Enhancement of Si Solar Cells by Assembled Carbon Nanotubes”. Nano-Micro Letters 2 (1):22-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353612.
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