• DocumentCode
    2285030
  • Title

    Investigation of infrared solar cells based on heterojunctions formed by Si and single-walled carbon nanotubes

  • Author

    Li, Yongfeng ; Hatakeyama, Rikizo ; Kato, Tatsuya ; Kaneko, Toshiro

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-20 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    598
  • Lastpage
    601
  • Abstract
    In this work, we have investigated the performance of solar cells based on heterojunctions formed by Si and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Our findings indicate that SWNTs show the outstanding performance on transferring infrared light into electrical energy. In addition, the encapsulation of C60 fullerene inside SWNTs is found to significantly enhance the performance of solar cells through adjusting the Fermi level of SWNTs.
  • Keywords
    Fermi level; carbon nanotubes; encapsulation; fullerenes; silicon; solar cells; Fermi level; Si; heterojunction formation; infrared solar cell; single-walled carbon nanotube;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2010 10th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • ISSN
    1944-9399
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7033-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1944-9399
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NANO.2010.5697792
  • Filename
    5697792
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2285030