Review of ways to improve the working efficiency of solar cells

Yanru Wang

doi:10.54254/2755-2721/3/20230323

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Wang,Y. (2023). Review of ways to improve the working efficiency of solar cells. Applied and Computational Engineering,3,32-36.

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Review of ways to improve the working efficiency of solar cells

Yanru Wang *^,1,

¹ Energy Engineering, the University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China, 999077

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/3/20230323

Abstract

Since the fossil energy is depleting day by day, the development of renewable energy is urgent. Solar energy is one of the most potential clean energy sources, and the efficiency of solar cells still has a lot of room to improve, which leads to their application scope not being wide. This paper aims to summarize the views of different scholars on ways to improve the efficiency of solar cells. Through experiments and numerical simulations, people try to overcome this problem, and they find that the material selection and surface treatment of solar cells can be optimized so that the efficiency of solar cells can be improved.

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Solar energy, solar cells, efficiency, renewable energy.

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Wang,Y. (2023). Review of ways to improve the working efficiency of solar cells. Applied and Computational Engineering,3,32-36.

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Volume title: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Engineering (CONF-MCEE 2023)

Conference website: https://www.confmcee.org/

ISBN：978-1-915371-51-5(Print) / 978-1-915371-52-2(Online)

Conference date: 18 March 2023

Editor：Ioannis Spanopoulos, Sajjad Seifi Mofarah, Niaz Ahmed

Series: Applied and Computational Engineering

Volume number: Vol.3

ISSN：2755-2721(Print) / 2755-273X(Online)

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