High Weight-Specific Power Density of Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells on Graphene Papers

Autor: Xin Zhang, Chi Zhang, Dongdong Li, Shuangying Cao, Min Yin, Peng Wang, Guqiao Ding, Liyou Yang, Jinrong Cheng, Linfeng Lu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1931-7573
1556-276X
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-019-3132-6
Popis: Abstract Flexible thin-film solar cells with high weight-specific power density are highly desired in the emerging portable/wearable electronic devices, solar-powered vehicles, etc. The conventional flexible metallic or plastic substrates are encountered either overweight or thermal and mechanical mismatch with deposited films. In this work, we proposed a novel substrate for flexible solar cells based on graphene paper, which possesses the advantages of being lightweight and having a high-temperature tolerance and high mechanical flexibility. Thin-film amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells were constructed on such graphene paper, whose power density is 4.5 times higher than that on plastic polyimide substrates. In addition, the a-Si:H solar cells present notable flexibility whose power conversion efficiencies show little degradation when the solar cells are bent to a radius as small as 14 mm for more than 100 times. The application of this unique flexible substrate can be extended to CuInGaSe and CdTe solar cells and other thin-film devices requiring high-temperature processing.
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