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Tribological and Optical Characteristics of Silica Coating for Anti-reflection Coating of Solar Cell

태양전지의 반사방지막을 위한 Silica 코팅의 트라이볼로지 및 광학적 특성 평가

  • Received : 2010.09.10
  • Accepted : 2010.09.19
  • Published : 2010.09.25
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Abstract

The interest in acquiring high efficiency solar cells has been steadily increasing due to various advantages such as low-cost installation, pollution free and everlasting energy generation. In order to raise the cell efficiency, there has been a lot of effort to develop effective anti-reflection coatings. In this work, the main objective was to investigate the effects of particle size and annealing temperature of silica anti-reflection coatings to maximize the cell efficiency as well as reliability. It was shown that the light transmittance could be increased by a few percent over a certain range of wavelength using the silica coating. Also, the tribological properties of the coating could be improved through the annealing process, which led to better reliability of the coating.

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