Nanocoax solar cells based on aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays

✍ Scribed by Paudel, T. ;Rybczynski, J. ;Gao, Y. T. ;Lan, Y. C. ;Peng, Y. ;Kempa, K. ;Naughton, M. J. ;Ren, Z. F.

• Book ID: 105366346
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 323 KB
• Volume: 208
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8965
• DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201026781

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We fabricated and studied solar cells based on a distributed nanocoax architecture by depositing amorphous silicon as photovoltaic medium on arrays of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes. These inexpensive cells demonstrate an initial efficiency of 6.1% that can be further enhanced by increasing the nanocoax density per unit area and improving the amorphous silicon quality.