Flexible Solar Modules Using Polycarbonate for Templating and Encapsulation

Maha Khayyat

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Flexible Solar Modules Using Polycarbonate for Templating and Encapsulation

Maha Khayyat

Published in American Journal of Nanosciences (Volume 7, Issue 3)

Received: 20 August 2021 Accepted: 31 August 2021 Published: 6 September 2021

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Combining both approaches of fabricating photovoltaic cells and designing solar modules using polycarbonate in the form of nanospheres and panels is an innovate approach in solar cells technology. Polycarbonate nanospheres was employed to control the position of the growth of silicon nanowires using the technique of Nanoscale Chemical Templating. The grown silicon nanowires were catalyzed via Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) technique at the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) or UHVCVD reactor. The bottom-up grown nanowires were doped with aluminium (Al) throughout the growth process then the p-i-n junctions were formed material. The conventional silicon cells or the innovative ones can be incapsulated in a polycarbonate flexible-surfaces. The polycarbonate material will allow us to further increase the performance of the devices and decrease the overall costs. The study presents concepts along with their experimental proofs presented as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) micrographs, and optical characterizations. The proposed method is also flexible, as it is amenable to both standard lithography techniques and self-assembled patterning techniques.

Published in	American Journal of Nanosciences (Volume 7, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajn.20210703.12
Page(s)	54-58
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Silicon (Si), Nanowires (NWs), Nanosphere (NS), Polycarbonate (PC), Nanoscale Chemical Templating (NCT)

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