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Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity

Depletion of fossil fuel based energy sources drive the present scenario towards development of solar based alternative energy. Polycrystalline silicon solar cells are preferred due to low cost and abundant availability. However, the power conversion efficiency of polycrystalline silicon is lesser c...

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Main Authors: Kathirvel, K., Rajasekar, R., Shanmuharajan, T., Pal, S. K., Sathish Kumar, P., Saravana Kumar, J.
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spelling my.utm.769422018-04-30T14:27:05Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76942/ Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity Kathirvel, K. Rajasekar, R. Shanmuharajan, T. Pal, S. K. Sathish Kumar, P. Saravana Kumar, J. TP Chemical technology Depletion of fossil fuel based energy sources drive the present scenario towards development of solar based alternative energy. Polycrystalline silicon solar cells are preferred due to low cost and abundant availability. However, the power conversion efficiency of polycrystalline silicon is lesser compared to monocrystalline one. The present study aims at analyzing the effect of calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3) antireflection (AR) coating on the power conversion of polycrystalline solar cells. CaTiO3 offers unique characteristics, such as non-radioactive and non-magnetic orthorhombic biaxial structure with bulk density of 3.91 g/cm3. CaTiO3 film deposition on the solar cell substrate has been carried out using Radio Frequency (RF) magnetron sputter coating technique under varying time durations (10 min to 45 min). Morphological studies proved the formation of CaTiO3 layer and respective elemental percentages on the coated substrate. Open circuit voltage studies were conducted on bare and coated silicon solar substrates under open and controlled atmospheric conditions. CaTiO3 coated on a solar cell substrate in a deposition time of 30 min showed 8.76 % improvement in the cell voltage compared to the bare solar cell. Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76942/1/JSaravanaKumar2017_DevelopmentofCalciumTitaniumOxideCoatedSilicon.pdf Kathirvel, K. and Rajasekar, R. and Shanmuharajan, T. and Pal, S. K. and Sathish Kumar, P. and Saravana Kumar, J. (2017) Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity. Materials Science- Poland, 35 (1). pp. 181-187. ISSN 2083-1331 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019099055&doi=10.1515%2fmsp-2017-0036&partnerID=40&md5=396a978d59f363f4358ef7c4fde3948e DOI:10.1515/msp-2017-0036
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Kathirvel, K.
Rajasekar, R.
Shanmuharajan, T.
Pal, S. K.
Sathish Kumar, P.
Saravana Kumar, J.
Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
description Depletion of fossil fuel based energy sources drive the present scenario towards development of solar based alternative energy. Polycrystalline silicon solar cells are preferred due to low cost and abundant availability. However, the power conversion efficiency of polycrystalline silicon is lesser compared to monocrystalline one. The present study aims at analyzing the effect of calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3) antireflection (AR) coating on the power conversion of polycrystalline solar cells. CaTiO3 offers unique characteristics, such as non-radioactive and non-magnetic orthorhombic biaxial structure with bulk density of 3.91 g/cm3. CaTiO3 film deposition on the solar cell substrate has been carried out using Radio Frequency (RF) magnetron sputter coating technique under varying time durations (10 min to 45 min). Morphological studies proved the formation of CaTiO3 layer and respective elemental percentages on the coated substrate. Open circuit voltage studies were conducted on bare and coated silicon solar substrates under open and controlled atmospheric conditions. CaTiO3 coated on a solar cell substrate in a deposition time of 30 min showed 8.76 % improvement in the cell voltage compared to the bare solar cell.
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author Kathirvel, K.
Rajasekar, R.
Shanmuharajan, T.
Pal, S. K.
Sathish Kumar, P.
Saravana Kumar, J.
author_facet Kathirvel, K.
Rajasekar, R.
Shanmuharajan, T.
Pal, S. K.
Sathish Kumar, P.
Saravana Kumar, J.
author_sort Kathirvel, K.
title Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
title_short Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
title_full Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
title_fullStr Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
title_full_unstemmed Development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
title_sort development of calcium titanium oxide coated silicon solar cells for enhanced voltage generation capacity
publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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