RE-Doped SnO2 as Functional Oxides For Photovoltaics

Karima Bouras

ISBN 10: 3659948705 / ISBN 13: 9783659948701

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Photon conversion using lanthanide doped materials with high performances is a great challenging topic and of particular interest for photovoltaics. This work aims at functionalizing transparent conductive oxide (TCO) materials with rare earth (RE) elements for photons conversion purpose without harm to transparency, nor carriers transport properties of the TCO. The spectral conversion targeted in this thesis is of type 'shifting', in other words, converting high energy UV photons into low energy visible and/or NIR photons useful to solar cells. Here we investigated the doping process of SnO2 as a host material in which rare earths such as Nd, Tb, Pr, and Yb were inserted. The first part concerns the study of structural and optical properties of RE-doped SnO2 nanoparticles (powders). The latest were synthesised by two chemical methods: co-precipitation and sol-gel. The second part of this work reports on the properties of RE-doped SnOx thin films produced by magnetron sputtering technique. The final chapter demonstrates that application of the RE-doped SnO2 conversion layers to CIGS and Si based solar cells offers significant improvement in their photovoltaic properties. 276 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RE-Doped SnO2 as Functional Oxides For Photovoltaics
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659948705
• ISBN 13: 9783659948701
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 17D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 429 grams

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Synopsis

Photon conversion using lanthanide doped materials with high performances is a great challenging topic and of particular interest for photovoltaics. This work aims at functionalizing transparent conductive oxide (TCO) materials with rare earth (RE) elements for photons conversion purpose without harm to transparency, nor carriers transport properties of the TCO. The spectral conversion targeted in this thesis is of type “shifting”, in other words, converting high energy UV photons into low energy visible and/or NIR photons useful to solar cells. Here we investigated the doping process of SnO2 as a host material in which rare earths such as Nd, Tb, Pr, and Yb were inserted. The first part concerns the study of structural and optical properties of RE-doped SnO2 nanoparticles (powders). The latest were synthesised by two chemical methods: co-precipitation and sol-gel. The second part of this work reports on the properties of RE-doped SnOx thin films produced by magnetron sputtering technique. The final chapter demonstrates that application of the RE-doped SnO2 conversion layers to CIGS and Si based solar cells offers significant improvement in their photovoltaic properties.

About the Author

I am a French materials scientist, I have started my research experience at the Nanochemistry lab at ISIS in Strasbourg, France. My main work was focused on OFETs and self assembled architectures. After that, I spent almost four years at the MaCEPV group at ICUBE laboratory and DCMI groupe at IPCMS institute, France, where I did this PhD work.