Homogeneously Dispersed Silver Nanoparticles in EVA Laminating Film for Efficiency Enhancement of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Chang Kyu Son; Hong Suk Kang; Jin Woo Kim; Hongkyung Lee; Seong Ho Ahn; Jung-Ki Park; Hee-Tak Kim

Macromolecular Research, Vol.24, No.5, 436-440, May, 2016

DOI10.1007/s13233-016-4058-9 Export Citation

Homogeneously Dispersed Silver Nanoparticles in EVA Laminating Film for Efficiency Enhancement of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Chang Kyu Son^{1, 2}, Hong Suk Kang^{1, 3}, Jin Woo Kim², Hongkyung Lee^{1, 4}, Seong Ho Ahn², Jung-Ki Park^{1, 4, †}, and Hee-Tak Kim^{1, 4, †}

¹Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Korea
²Lotte Chemical Corporation, Daejeon, 34110, Korea
³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
⁴, Korea

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We present a simple yet high-throughput approach for placing homogeneously dispersed silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) onto the top surface of a photovoltaic cell which can improve power conversion efficiency of a photovoltaic cell. Our system is realized in two major steps: i) fabricating a AgNP-dispersed ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) thin film from a AgNP/EVA mixture and ii) subsequently laminating the top surface of the photovoltaic cell by using the film. To achieve good dispersion of the AgNPs, a maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene (PP-g-MAH) is added to the AgNP/EVA mixtures as a compatibilizer. Owing to the good AgNPs dispersion, the obtained thin film shows an extremely high light scattering, thus enhancing the power conversion efficiency of the resulting photovoltaic cell.

Keywords:metal nanoparticles;maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene;silver island film;light scattering;photovoltaic cells

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