Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Smeltzer, Benjamin"
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Light trapping in horizontally aligned silicon microwire solar cells
Martinsen, Fredrik Aleksander; Smeltzer, Benjamin; Ballato, John; Jones, Maxwell; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)In this study, we demonstrate a solar cell design based on horizontally aligned microwires fabricated from 99.98% pure silicon via the molten core fiber drawing method. A similar structure consisting of 50 μm diameter close ... -
Optical Properties of Silicon Microwire Arrays for Photovoltaic Applications
Smeltzer, Benjamin (Master thesis, 2015)Silicon microwire-based solar cells represent a potential design strategy to reduce wafer related costs through reduced material usage and relaxed purity requirements. In this work we investigate the absorption of incident ... -
Silicon-core glass fibres as microwire radial-junction solar cells
Martinsen, Fredrik A; Smeltzer, Benjamin; Nord, Magnus Kristofer; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Vertically aligned radial-junction solar cell designs offer potential improvements over planar geometries, as carrier generation occurs close to the junction for all absorption depths, but most production methods still ...