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Enhanced light trapping in solar cells using snow globe coating

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2012

Authors

Basch, Angelika
Beck, Fiona
Söderström, Thomas
Varlamov, Sergey
Catchpole, Kylie

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John Wiley & Sons Inc

Abstract

A novel method, snow globe coating, is found to show significant enhancement of the short circuit current JSC (35%) when applied as a scattering back reflector for polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells. The coating is formed from high refractive index titania particles without containing binder and gives close to 100% reflectance for wavelengths above 400 nm. Snow globe coating is a physicochemical coating method executable in pH neutral media. The mild conditions of this process make this method applicable to many different types of solar cells.

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Keywords: Back reflectors; Coating methods; High refractive index; Light-trapping; Neutral media; Thin-film solar cells; Titania; Dielectric materials; Polysilicon; Reflection; Refractive index; Semiconductor materials; Snow; Solar cells; Thin films; Titanium dioxi dielectric materials; light trapping; refractive index; semiconductors; thin films; zeta-potential

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68565

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ANU Research Publications

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Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

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Journal article

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10.1002/pip.2240

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2037-12-31

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