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Anti-Reflective Dielectric Nanostructures for Solar Cells Analyzed from a Helicity Preservation Perspective

Slivina, Evgeniia

Abstract:

Continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) emissions and subsequent growth of the global average temperature pushes us towards a faster transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. In this respect, photovoltaics (PV) may play a decisive role in achieving net zero CO$_2$ emissions within the desired time frame. While new PV technologies have been actively researched over recent years, silicon (Si) PV continues to dominate the world market.

Despite the maturity of Si PV, there is still room for improvement. In particular, to keep up with the estimates for the global installed PV capacity for upcoming decades, one has to consider how much energy is actually used for manufacturing Si wafers. Thus, it is feasible to consider a transition to thinner Si absorbers. However, such transition requires adjustments of the industrially accepted processes used to negate optical losses since the standard approach employing random pyramidal textures is no longer feasible for rather thin wafers. Thus, alternative strategies have to be established. For this purpose, nanophotonic structures are of interest. In particular, dielectric scatterers supporting Mie resonances attracted attention from the research community over the last few years.
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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000141382
Veröffentlicht am 20.12.2021
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT)
Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP)
Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsdatum 20.12.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000141382
HGF-Programm 43.32.02 (POF IV, LK 01) Designed Optical Materials
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang xiii, 98 S.
Art der Arbeit Dissertation
Fakultät Fakultät für Physik (PHYSIK)
Institut Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP)
Prüfungsdatum 26.11.2021
Referent/Betreuer Rockstuhl, C.
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