A Review On Light Trapping Capacities of Different Photovoltaic Cells

Nayanjyoti Deka, Papul Changmai

Abstract


As human beings mostly depend on fossil fuels for all of their daily energy usages. But due to the exponential increase in the graph of the price of the fossil fuels, as well as the gradually decreasing graph of their availability on a large scale, makes the people to divert their attention towards a new source of sustainable energy which could fulfil their daily energy needs reliably, efficiently as well as cost-effectively. Among all renewable sources, the solar energy is an energy source whose availability is free and in an enormous amount; but the main thing is that steps should be undertaken in order to harness the solar energy properly. The following contents in the paper are based on the ways that how solar energy could be harnessed profitably.

Keywords


Light Absorption, Solar Efficiency, Amorphous silicon, Light trapping.

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