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Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells
- Source :
- International Journal of Photoenergy, Vol 2013 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- Today, after more than 70 years of continued progress on silicon technology, about 85% of cumulative installed photovolatic (PV) modules are based on crystalline silicon (c-Si). PV devices based on silicon are the most common solar cells currently being produced, and it is mainly due to silicon technology that the PV has grown by 40% per year over the last decade. An additional step in the silicon solar cell development is ongoing, and it is related to a further efficiency improvement through defect control, device optimization, surface modification, and nanotechnology approaches. This paper attempts to briefly review the most important advances and current technologies used to produce crystalline silicon solar devices and in the meantime the most challenging and promising strategies acting to increase the efficiency to cost/ratio of silicon solar cells. Eventually, the impact and the potentiality of using a nanotechnology approach in a silicon-based solar cell are also described.
- Subjects :
- Future perspective
Materials science
Silicon
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
lcsh:TJ807-830
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
chemistry.chemical_element
Nanotechnology
General Chemistry
Silicon , solar cells, quantum dots
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Silicon based
law.invention
CHIM/02 - CHIMICA FISICA
chemistry
law
Critical success factor
Solar cell
General Materials Science
Crystalline silicon
FIS/03 - FISICA DELLA MATERIA
Silicon solar cell
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1687529X and 1110662X
- Volume :
- 2013
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Photoenergy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7a0651e970b212ea26203ce802d71ce