2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 5: Composite, Ceramic, Quasi-crystals, Nanomaterials & Coatings
| Editors: | Kongoli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 578 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-07-2 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Chalcopyrite type Solar Cells
Dinesh Pathak1;1UNIVERZITA PARDUBICE, Pardubice, Czech Republic;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 249
Topic: 14
Abstract:
The increase in world energy consumption and limited availability of fossil fuels has made the renewable energy sources the most discussed issue these days. There are several renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, rain and geothermal energy etc. Among these, solar energy is identified as the best renewable energy source due to its longevity, cost effectiveness and clean properties. Harnessing of solar energy for significant technological applications is another cause of great concern as it requires materials that have a high ability of solar energy collection and conversion. Therefore, a wide variety of materials such as Si, CdSe, CdS, CuInSe2 etc have been used for fabrication of solar cells with high conversion efficiency. Although silicon with 22 % efficiency has been the traditional solar cell material of choice, its high cost and fragility reduces its residential applications. Cadmium based solar cells are also considered in commercial modules due to their high efficiency of up to 19%, but highly toxic nature of Cd limits its applications. In this presentation, Silver based ternary chalcopyrite (AIS) films will be explored for possible photovoltaic applications.