Ponce Alcántara, Salvador; Connolly, James Patrick; Sánchez Plaza, Guillermo; Minguez, José Manuel; Hoffmann, Volker; Ordas, Ramon(Elsevier, 2014)
This paper presents an experimental study of the variation in the performance of silicon solar cells with temperature. The cells studied were fabricated from standard electronic grade and upgraded metallurgical grade ...
[EN] In thin-film silicon solar cells textured interfaces are introduced, leading to improved antireflection and light trapping capabilities of the devices. Thin-layers are deposited on surface-textured substrates or ...
[EN] In this paper we show the results of the cost model developed in LIMA project (FP7-248909). The LIMA project is titled "Improve photovoltaic efficiency by applying novel effects at the limits of light to matter ...
Cortés-Juan, F.; Chaverri Ramos, Christian; Connolly, James Patrick; David, Christin; García de Abajo, Francisco Javier; Hurtado Montañés, Juan; Mihailetchi, V.D.; Ponce-Alcántara, Salvador; Sánchez Plaza, Guillermo(American Institute of Physics, 2013)
[EN] The influence of the relative position of Ag metallic nanoparticles (Ag MNPs) embedded in a 100 nm SiOx Antireflection Coating (ARC) for specular polished c-Si substrates is studied. It is demonstrated that this ...
Cortés Juan, Frederic; Espinosa Soria, Alba; Connolly, James Patrick; Sánchez Plaza, Guillermo; Hugonin, J.P.; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Elsevier, 2015)
[EN] We present a strategy for simulating the scattering effect of an array of self-aggregated (SA) metal nanoparticles (NPs) on the light absorption in solar cells. We include size and shape effects of the NPs, the effect ...
David, C.; Connolly, James Patrick; Chaverri Ramos, Christian; Garcia de Abajo, F.J.; Sánchez Plaza, Guillermo(Elsevier, 2013)
[EN] Random Al and Ag nanoparticle distributions are studied on varying substrates, where we exploit the nanosphere self-aggregation (NSA) method for fabrication. Relying on the measured particle size distributions of these ...