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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2013, Article ID 596973, 1 page http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/596973 Editorial Si-Related Solar Cells for a Low Cost and High Efficiency 2013 Junsin Yi, 1 Bhushan Sopori, 2 C. W. Lan, 3 Donghwan Kim, 4 and Stephen Bremner 5 1 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea 2 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-1, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea 5 School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Junsin Yi; [email protected] Received 20 November 2013; Accepted 20 November 2013 Copyright © 2013 Junsin Yi et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As the global effort dedicated to “green growth and low- carbon society” has opened a new era for the renewable energy technology like solar cell, expected solar cell produc- tion capacity is expected to exceed 50 GW in 2013. Recent technical breakthrough in traditional wafer silicon, thin-film solar cells, and new concept of solar cells contributed to lower prices and higher efficiencies for PV energy. ere has been great amount of investment in solar cells and subsequent technical breakthough. One of the key technologies is based on incident light trapping for better output power gain in various solar cells such as c-Si, mc-Si, a-Si, III-V, II-VI, CdTe, and CIGS. e sharing of new ideas and information in an open forum will allow even greater progress to be made in solar cell research and development. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: silicon surface texture methods and technologies, TCO light trapping related approaches for thin film soalr cells, plasmon related light path length modulation, substrate (glass, metal, and plastic) surface light trapping structure, high efficiency approaches and technologies with solar cell light trapping, novel solar cells related new process, material, and structure of light trapping, low cost related material, device, and process, and other novel solar cell mate- rials and devices. e papers collected together in this special issue have been sourced in two ways: firstly; roughly one-third of the papers were presented during the Global Photovoltaic Con- ference 2012 (GPVC 2012) that was held at Busan, Korea, in November 2012. Around 400 papers were presented at this conference, with outstanding presentations invited to be sub- mitted as full-length version papers for this special issue. Secondly, an open call was made to the photovoltaics commu- nity to submit new and interesting results related to, but not restricted to, silicon based photovoltaics. e high standard expected is reflected in that only approximately a little less than half of submitted papers were accepted for publication in this issue. e range of topics considered in the papers is con- siderable, spanning intensive studies of conventional crystal growth technologies, novel production methods for conven- tional silicon solar cells, nanoinspired architectures, and even a new characterization approach. We, the editorial team, expect, due to the high quality of the papers included in this issue, that not only will good representation of the state of research in silicon based photovoltaics be achieved, but also further efforts will be spurred on by the discoveries reported. Junsin Yi Bhushan Sopori C. W. Lan Donghwan Kim Stephen Bremner
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Hindawi Publishing CorporationInternational Journal of PhotoenergyVolume 2013, Article ID 596973, 1 pagehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/596973
EditorialSi-Related Solar Cells for a Low Cost and High Efficiency 2013
Junsin Yi,1 Bhushan Sopori,2 C. W. Lan,3 Donghwan Kim,4 and Stephen Bremner5
1 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong,Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA3Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-1, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea5 School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Correspondence should be addressed to Junsin Yi; [email protected]
Received 20 November 2013; Accepted 20 November 2013
Copyright © 2013 Junsin Yi et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
As the global effort dedicated to “green growth and low-carbon society” has opened a new era for the renewableenergy technology like solar cell, expected solar cell produc-tion capacity is expected to exceed 50GW in 2013. Recenttechnical breakthrough in traditional wafer silicon, thin-filmsolar cells, and new concept of solar cells contributed to lowerprices and higher efficiencies for PV energy. There has beengreat amount of investment in solar cells and subsequenttechnical breakthough. One of the key technologies is basedon incident light trapping for better output power gain invarious solar cells such as c-Si, mc-Si, a-Si, III-V, II-VI, CdTe,and CIGS. The sharing of new ideas and information in anopen forum will allow even greater progress to be made insolar cell research and development. Potential topics include,but are not limited to: silicon surface texture methods andtechnologies, TCO light trapping related approaches for thinfilm soalr cells, plasmon related light path lengthmodulation,substrate (glass, metal, and plastic) surface light trappingstructure, high efficiency approaches and technologies withsolar cell light trapping, novel solar cells related new process,material, and structure of light trapping, low cost relatedmaterial, device, and process, and other novel solar cell mate-rials and devices.
The papers collected together in this special issue havebeen sourced in two ways: firstly; roughly one-third of thepapers were presented during the Global Photovoltaic Con-ference 2012 (GPVC 2012) that was held at Busan, Korea, inNovember 2012. Around 400 papers were presented at this
conference, with outstanding presentations invited to be sub-mitted as full-length version papers for this special issue.Secondly, an open call wasmade to the photovoltaics commu-nity to submit new and interesting results related to, but notrestricted to, silicon based photovoltaics. The high standardexpected is reflected in that only approximately a little lessthan half of submitted papers were accepted for publicationin this issue.
The range of topics considered in the papers is con-siderable, spanning intensive studies of conventional crystalgrowth technologies, novel production methods for conven-tional silicon solar cells, nanoinspired architectures, and evena new characterization approach. We, the editorial team,expect, due to the high quality of the papers included in thisissue, that not only will good representation of the state ofresearch in silicon based photovoltaics be achieved, but alsofurther efforts will be spurred on by the discoveries reported.
Junsin YiBhushan Sopori
C. W. LanDonghwan Kim
Stephen Bremner
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