A Comprehensive Review on Current Performance, Challenges and Progress in Thin-Film Solar Cells
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Sivaraj, S., Rathanasamy, R., Kaliyannan, G.V., Panchal, H., Alrubaie, A.J., Jaber, M.M., Said, Z. and Memon, S. (2022). A Comprehensive Review on Current Performance, Challenges and Progress in Thin-Film Solar Cells. Energies. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228688
Authors | Sivaraj, S., Rathanasamy, R., Kaliyannan, G.V., Panchal, H., Alrubaie, A.J., Jaber, M.M., Said, Z. and Memon, S. |
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Abstract | Due to the recent surge in silicon demand for solar modules, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules have a potential to penetrate the market in significant numbers. As an alternate candidate, thin film technologies in PVs have the ability to achieve better performance. The competing thin-film PV technologies have the flexibility to adapt to any sort of curvature compared to rigid solar cells (SCs). Due to the peculiar characteristics of newer solar materials, stability issues, reflection losses, advancements in electrode materials and dopant materials with a photoactive layer are current challenges driving the industrial-academic voyage of development of solar materials for the betterment of Photo-conversion Efficiency (PCE). Based on the photoactive materials used over time, SC evolution was broadly classified into first, second and third generation SCs. In this review, the basic working mechanisms, various materials used, drawbacks and stability issues of different SCs are discussed extensively. Thin film SCs tend to absorb certain elastic deformations due to their flexible nature and to a certain extent. According to the NREL efficiency chart, multi-junctional SCs exhibit enhanced efficiency as compared to the other SCs. Among the third-generation SCs, the perovskite/Si tandem architecture shows a maximum efficiency of approximately 29%. Thin film flexible SCs find application in various sectors such as automobile, defense and/or energy storage devices |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Energies |
Publisher | MDPI |
ISSN | 1996-1073 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228688 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228688 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 19 Nov 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Nov 2022 |
Deposited | 25 Nov 2022 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/92q80
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