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Monolithic bifacial perovskite-CdSeTe tandem thin film solar cells for harvesting light from the environment
Project #D2021-04Invention DescriptionThe University of Toledo has developed a new tandem solar cell design — the bifacial tandem (Fig. 1) that enabled the first realization of a working monolithic tandem solar cell comprising wide-bandgap metal halide perovskite and narrow-bandgap cadmium selenide telluride (CdSeTe, or CST). The bifacial strategy...
Published: 6/18/2024   |   Inventor(s): Yanfa Yan, Zhaoning Song, Kamala Khanal Subedi, Randall Ellingson
Keywords(s): Bandgap, Bifacial, CdSeTe, CdTe, CIGS, Perovskite , Tandem
Category(s): Materials, Solar
PERC-like contact for CdTe Solar Cells
Project ID: D2019-40BackgroundCdCl2 activation is a well-known method to passivate grain boundaries for CdTe solar cells. In crystalline silicon solar cells, manufacturers have started to modify film structures to incorporate a passivated layer. These are called Passivated Emitter and Rear Cells (PERC). The additional layer decreases the recombination...
Published: 6/18/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Heben, Adam Phillips, Fadhil Alfadhili
Keywords(s): CdTe, Passivated, PERC, Solar
Category(s): Solar
Inexpensive, Earth-Abundant, and Tunable Hole Transport Material for CdTe Solar Cells
Project ID: D2017-08Background Photovoltaic (PV) cells have been produced with a wide variety of materials for each functional layer. The typical PV is a substrate layer coated with a semiconductor layer and two ohmic contacts. Thin film solar cells use a thin absorbing layer, such as Cadmium telluride (CdTe). CdTe is the most eco-friendly, high efficiency,...
Published: 6/18/2024   |   Inventor(s): Randall Ellingson, Khagendra Bhandari, Michael Heben, Suneth Watthage
Keywords(s): CdTe, Hole transport layer, Photovoltaics, Solar cell
Category(s): Electrical, Solar