Print Email Facebook Twitter Optical characterization of photovoltaic materials and structures for thin-film solar cells based on advanced texturization Title Optical characterization of photovoltaic materials and structures for thin-film solar cells based on advanced texturization Author Vismara, R. Contributor Isabella, O. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Electrical Sustainable Energy Programme Sustainable Energy Technology Date 2014-09-10 Abstract Advanced texturization is a promising approach to increase the performance of thin-film solar cells. Currently, light trapping schemes implemented in state-of-the-art devices utilize randomly textured interfaces to increase their optical performance. Periodic gratings, however, have the potential to outperform their random counterparts and are thus of great interest for PV applications. In this work, an analysis of the optical performance of different advanced grating concepts applied to thin-film solar cells is presented. Different types of absorber materials were taken into account: amorphous and micro-crystalline silicon, crystalline silicon and Copper-Indium-Gallium-diSelenide chalcopyrite semiconductors. Subject light managementlight trappingperiodic gratingsasymmetric gratingsnanowiresoptical characterizationoptical simulations To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0d969f35-fbe0-433d-905e-bd08768d1594 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2014 Vismara, R. Files PDF MSc_thesis_R.Vismara.pdf 6.17 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0d969f35-fbe0-433d-905e-bd08768d1594/datastream/OBJ/view