Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "photovoltaics"
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Development and characterization of PECVD grown silicon nanowires for thin film photovoltaics
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-23)Nanowires are high aspect ratio nanostructures with structural diameters on the order of nanometers to hundreds of nanometers. In this work, the optical properties of highly crystalline silicon nanowires grown by the ... -
Electrodeposition of p-Type Cuprous Oxide and its Application in Oxide Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a promising material for the fabrication of oxide solar cells due to its abundance, nontoxicity, stability and ability to be deposited under mild conditions. At the moment, the reported efficiencies ... -
Factors Affecting Charge Collection and Photo-Stability of Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)Organic photovoltaics employ small molecules or polymers as their primary light absorbing materials and thus differ strongly from traditional silicon-based photovoltaics. Their primary technological benefit is a significant ... -
Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices With Rapid Thermally Annealed Crystalline Thin Films
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)Rapid thermal annealing (RTA) is a low thermal budget high throughput method of crystallizing hydrogenated amorphous (a-Si:H) silicon films. This thesis had three principal goals: 1) to fabricate heterojunction solar cells ... -
The Influence of Morphology and Molecular Orientation on the Efficiency and Lifetime of Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-10)One of the reasons for the low efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) is because the relationship between morphology and molecular orientation of the organic semiconductors and the performance and lifetime of the OSC is ... -
Novel N-Type π-Conjugated Polymers for All-Polymer Solar Cell
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Organic solar cells (OSCs), also known as, organic photovoltaics (OPVs), appear as a promising technology for renewable energy owing to their light weight, great flexibility and low-cost fabrication process. So far most ... -
Synthesis and Application of Graphene Decorated Nanocomposites for Photovoltaics and Printed Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-07)Improving the yield performance of commercial solar cells has been a major topic of interest for many research studies as different processing parameters are extensively explored. Screen printing metallization is the most ...