<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Graphene is a two-dimensional material with honeycomb structure. Its unique mechanical, physical electrical and optical properties makes it an important industrially and economically material in the coming years. One of the application areas for graphene is the photovoltaic industry. Studies have shown that doped graphene can change one absorbed photon of a few electrons, which in practice means an increase in efficiency of solar panels. In addition, graphene has a low coefficient of light absorption 2.3% which indicates that is an almost completely transparent material. In fact, it means that solar cells based on graphene can significantly expand the absorbed spectrum wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. Graphene additionally is a material with a very high tensile strength so it can be successfully used on the silicon, flexible and organic substrates as well. So far, significant effort has been devoted to using graphene for improving the overall performance of photovoltaic devices. It has been reported that graphene can play diverse, but positive roles such as an electrode, an active layer, an interfacial layer and an electron acceptor in photovoltaic cells. Research on solar cells containing in its structure graphene however, are still at laboratory scale. This is due to both lack the ability to produce large-sized graphene and reproducibility of its parameters</p></abstract>

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with honeycomb structure. Its unique mechanical, physical electrical and optical properties makes it an important industrially and economically material in the coming years. One of the application areas for graphene is the photovoltaic industry. Studies have shown that doped graphene can change one absorbed photon of a few electrons, which in practice means an increase in efficiency of solar panels. In addition, graphene has a low coefficient of light absorption 2.3% which indicates that is an almost completely transparent material. In fact, it means that solar cells based on graphene can significantly expand the absorbed spectrum wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. Graphene additionally is a material with a very high tensile strength so it can be successfully used on the silicon, flexible and organic substrates as well. So far, significant effort has been devoted to using graphene for improving the overall performance of photovoltaic devices. It has been reported that graphene can play diverse, but positive roles such as an electrode, an active layer, an interfacial layer and an electron acceptor in photovoltaic cells. Research on solar cells containing in its structure graphene however, are still at laboratory scale. This is due to both lack the ability to produce large-sized graphene and reproducibility of its parameters

Graphene as a Material for Solar Cells Applications

Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, 90-924 Lodz, Stefanowskiego Street 1/15, Poland

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Graphene is a two-dimensional material with honeycomb structure. Its unique mechanical, physical electrical and optical properties makes it an important...

Graphene as a Material for Solar Cells Applications

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 67 - 81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/adms-2015-0024

Keywords
graphene, photovoltaic cells, transparent materials, graphene oxide

© by M. Czerniak-Reczulska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Graphene as a Material for Solar Cells Applications

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 67 - 81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/adms-2015-0024

Keywordsgraphene, photovoltaic cells, transparent materials, graphene oxide

© by M. Czerniak-Reczulska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
graphene, photovoltaic cells, transparent materials, graphene oxide