A method for processing a transparent cover plate for a flat body includes the following steps of providing the transparent cover plate having an outer side and an opposite inner side, wherein the transparent cover plate includes a structured area with a light-scattering structure, forming of at least one optical interference layer on a cover plate side including applying a mask to the transparent cover plate, wherein the mask does not cover a first area of a cover plate surface and covers a second area of the cover plate side, and the first area and the second area are arranged to overlap the structured area, the at least one optical interference layer is applied in overlap with the mask, and removing of the mask, whereby the at least one optical interference layer is also removed.

A method is disclosed for making semiconductor films from a eutectic alloy comprising a metal and a semiconductor. Through heterogeneous nucleation said film is deposited at a deposition temperature on relatively inexpensive buffered substrates, such as glass. Specifically said film is vapor deposited at a fixed temperature in said deposition temperature where said deposition temperature is above a eutectic temperature of said eutectic alloy and below a temperature at which the substrate softens. Such films could have widespread application in photovoltaic and display technologies.

Embodiments of the present application provide an array substrate, a fabrication method for an array substrate, and a display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate, a gate, a gate insulating layer, a seed layer, and a semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked. A surface of the semiconductor layer away from the seed layer has a concave-convex structure formed by growth of nanocrystalline grains, which enhances light absorption of the semiconductor layer and solves the problems of poor light sensitivity and slow response speed of semiconductor devices.

A plasmonic scattering nanomaterial comprising a substrate layer, a metal oxide layer in continuous contact with the substrate layer and silver nanoparticles with a diameter of 25-300 nm deposited on the metal oxide layer is disclosed. The silver nanoparticles have a broad size distribution and interparticle distances such that the silver nanoparticles plasmonically scatter light throughout the metal oxide layer with a near electric field strength of 1-30 V/m when excited by a light source having a wavelength in the range of 300-500 nm and/or 1000-1200 nm. In addition, a method for producing the nanomaterial by sputter deposition is disclosed as well as an appropriate thin film plasmonic solar cell comprising the nanomaterial with a solar efficiency of at least 10%.

A method for assembling a solar module structure comprises patterning a frontside and a backside of a double-sided printed circuit board coated with metallic foils according to desired frontside and backside interconnect layouts; applying a first coating layer to the rear side of a plurality of three-dimensional thin-film solar cells, each three-dimensional thin-film solar cell comprising: a three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate comprising emitter junction regions and doped base regions; emitter metallization and base metallization regions; the three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate comprising a plurality of single-aperture unit cells; placing the three-dimensional thin-film solar cells on the frontside of the double-sided printed circuit board; preparing a solar module assembly, comprising: a glass layer; a top encapsulant layer; the plurality of three-dimensional thin-film solar cells on the frontside of the double-sided printed circuit board; a rear encapsulant layer; a protective back plate; and sealing and packaging the solar module assembly.

The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a monolithic tandem solar cell in which a perovskite solar cell is laminated and bonded on a silicon solar cell. According to the present disclosure, a first microporous precursor thin film is formed through a sputtering method on a substrate having an unevenly structured texture and then a halide thin film is formed on the first microporous precursor thin film to form a perovskite absorption layer, whereby light reflectance can be reduced and a path of light can be increased, and accordingly a light absorption rate can be increased.

Architectures for tandem solar cell including two thin films forming a top layer and a bottom layer. Such cells can be bi-facial. Exemplary materials used for the top layer are CIGS (CGS), perovskites (Sn and Ge), amorphous silicon (a-Si), copper oxide, tin sulfide, CZTS and III-V materials. For the bottom layer an inorganic film such as either silicon or germanium may be used. In general, the architecture includes of a glass, plastic or metal substrate and a buffer layer, either an oxide insulator or nitride conductor.

A method for manufacturing a solar cell includes forming a first dielectric layer on a second surface opposite a first surface of a substrate; forming second dielectric layers respectively on an emitter region and the first dielectric layer; forming a third dielectric layer on the second dielectric layer that is positioned on the emitter region; forming a hydrogenated silicon oxide layer on the third dielectric layer; forming a first electrode on the emitter region and connected to the emitter region; and forming a second electrode on the second surface of the substrate and connected to the substrate, wherein the first surface of the substrate has first and second textured surfaces, and wherein the first textured surface includes a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of first depressions and the second textured surface includes a plurality of second protrusions and a plurality of second depressions.

An infrared photo-detector array and a method for manufacturing it are disclosed. The infrared photo-detector array contains a plurality of pyramid-shaped structures, a first light-absorbing material supporting the plurality of the pyramid-shaped structure, a carrier-selective electronic barrier supporting the first light-absorbing material, a second light-absorbing material supporting the carrier-selective electronic barrier, and a metal reflector supporting the second light-absorbing material, wherein the plurality of the pyramid shaped structures are disposed on the side of the photo-detector array facing the incident light to be detected and the metal reflector is disposed on the opposite side of the photo-detector array. The method disclosed teaches how to manufacture the infrared photo-detector array.

Presented herein are systems and methods for waterless, contactless systems and methods for cleaning solar panels that can be applied, for example, to photovoltaics and solar reflector power plants. The systems and methods remove dust particles from surfaces using electrostatic induction.