NANO-STRUCTURED MATERIALS FOR THE CONVERSION OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

摘要

Nano-structured materials for silicon-based and non-silicon-based solar cells have furthered the pace of advance in developing advanced and novel solar cells. Especially of interest are doped amorphous and microcrystalline silicon. The dye-sensitized Graetzel and ETA solar cells have stimulated the development novel 3D nano-structured solid-state solar cells, for which Atomic Layer Deposition is a very efficient deposition technique. It is anticipated that these 3D solar cells will reach efficiencies of over 8% in the coming years, and will start to replace silicon-based solar cells.