Hybrid effect of gas flow and light excitation in carbon/silicon Schottky solar cells

Guifeng Fan; Lili Fan; Zhen Li; Xi Bai; Stephen Mulligan; Yi Jia; Kunlin Wang; Jinquan Wei; Anyuan Cao; Dehai Wu; Bingqing Wei; Hongwei Zhu

doi:10.1039/C2JM15938D

Hybrid effect of gas flow and light excitation in carbon/silicon Schottky solar cells†

Guifeng Fan,^a Lili Fan,^a Zhen Li,^a Xi Bai,^a Stephen Mulligan,^b Yi Jia,^a Kunlin Wang,^a Jinquan Wei,^a Anyuan Cao,^c Dehai Wu,^a Bingqing Wei^b and Hongwei Zhu*^ad

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^a Department of Mechanical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Advanced Manufacturing by Material Processing Technology, Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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^b Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

^c Department of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China

^d Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China

Abstract

We study the gas flow assisted photovoltaic behaviour of the carbon/Si Schottky solar cells and reveal a hybrid effect with a flow-induced enhancement in cell efficiency. Gas flow sensing using the carbon/Si solar cells is proposed and tested.

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Hybrid effect of gas flow and light excitation in carbon/silicon Schottky solar cells†

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