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Light harvesting using photonic crystals for photovoltaic applications
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Autores:
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Buencuerpo Fariña, Jerónimo
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texto impreso
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016-12-14
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application/pdf
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Estado = No publicado
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Optica
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Tipo = Tesis
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Resumen:
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Photovoltaic solar cells base their operation on the efficient light absorption and the subsequent conversion into electricity by separation of electric charges. Generally, solar cells use interferencial layers and/or thick absorbers to minimize the optical losses. In recent years, the photovoltaic community has a growing interest in using various types of nanostructures to increase the efficiency, minimizing either the reflectivity and/or increasing the absorption. These techniques are known as light trapping. The use of nanostructures with periodic permittivity, i.e. photonic crystals, can be very beneficial compared to the conventional interferential layers and this enhancement justifies the possible disadvantage of requiring a more complex fabrication. Indeed, photonic crystals have great flexibility in designing the optical response of a system, namely the reflection, transmission and absorption. This flexibility allows to improve efficiency, either by reducing the reflection of the cell and/or increasing the absorption by increasing the effective optical path. This thesis focuses on the design of photonic crystals for 111-V solar cells. These cells achieve the greatest efficiency in converting light to electricity. There is a high interest in improving the already high efficiency to reduce the cost of the produced electricity in terms of kWh/$. These materials are generally used with optical concentration systems, with the consequence that the surface of the semiconductor layer can be reduced three orders of magnitude in comparison to conventional solar cells. This factor obviously lowers the cost of using nanostructures in concentration technology...
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/44156/1/T39043.pdf
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