Enhanced light trapping in solar cells using snow globe coating

Angelika Basch; Fiona Beck; Thomas Söderström; Sergey Varlamov; Kylie R. Catchpole

doi:10.1002/pip.2240

Enhanced light trapping in solar cells using snow globe coating

Angelika Basch^*, Fiona Beck, Thomas Söderström, Sergey Varlamov, Kylie R. Catchpole

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A novel method, snow globe coating, is found to show significant enhancement of the short circuit current J _SC (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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	837-842
Number of pages	6
Journal	Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications
Volume	20
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.2240
Publication status	Published - Nov 2012

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