Efficiency Improvement Analysis for Recent High-Efficient Solar Cells

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Oishi Ashrafun Nushra
Tanjim Meer Shadman Shafkat
M. Tanseer Ali

Abstract

The entire electricity demand of the whole earth, can be theoretically satisfied by harnessing the unlimited photon energy of the alpha source, the sun. Absorbing the solar power in a full efficient way is still on progress, due to the limitation of our solar cell technology. On commercial aspects, it is also promising but not up to the mark. Recent high efficient solar cell still leaves more space to improve the cell efficiency. On these circumstances, the use of Graphene, Multi-Junction Cells and Quantum Dot Cells will be helpful to increase the rate of recent research flow. This paper visualizes GaAs, InP, CdTe and Graphene implementations on four proposed basic models, which have showed a positive impact to overcome the losses and SQ limits. These models also postulate the maximization of the solar cell efficiency, omitting the corresponding losses along with maintaining the inter-junction relation suitably.

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O. Ashrafun Nushra, T. Meer Shadman Shafkat, and M. T. Ali, “Efficiency Improvement Analysis for Recent High-Efficient Solar Cells”, AJSE, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1 - 6, Apr. 2020.
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Tanjim Meer Shadman Shafkat

Meer Shadman Shafkat Tanjim received Bachelor of Science in EEE from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). His Master Degree is also from AIUB in EEE Background. He started his profession at Bangladesh Institute of Science & Technology (BIST) as Lecturer in the Dept. of ECE on May 2017. Around November 2017, he switched to European University of Bangladesh (EUB) in the Dept. of EEE as Lecturer. Recently, he is researching on Control System Strategies, Solar & Wind Energy, Aeronautics, Robotics, Smart System and IoT aspects.

M. Tanseer Ali

M. Tanseer Ali received Doctor of Engineering degree from University of Greenwich (UK), 2013. His research interest is focused on Analog Electronics, RF/Microwave Circuits and Systems, Nano-electronics, Nuclear Power, Solid State Circuits. Currently he is working as Senior Assistant professor in the department of EEE, AIUB.

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