- 염료감응형 태양전지와 열전발전소자를 결합한 복합 태양전지의 구조 및 특성
- ㆍ 저자명
- 이동윤,송재성,이원재,김인성,정순종,Lee. Dong-Yoon,Song. Jae-Sung,Lee. Won-Jae,Kim. In-Sung,Jeong. Soon-Jong
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 전기전자재료학회논문지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2005년|18권 4호|pp.357-362 (6 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국전기전자재료학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The tandem solar cell composed of a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) and a thermoelectric generator (TEG) was designed. In such new cell, the characteristics of DSC and TEG were investigated. DSC uses the wavelength range of 380∼750 nm and has the maximum efficiency of below 10 %. If the solar light transmitted through DSC can be converted to heat energy, TEG can generate electric energy using this heat energy. By this means, it is possible to utilize most of solar energy in the wavelength range of 350∼3000 nm for electric generation and it can be expected to obtain higher solar energy conversion efficiency exceeding the known limit of maximum efficiency. For this purpose we suggest the tandem solar cell constructed with DSC and TEG. In this structure, DSC has a carbon nanotube film as a counter electrode of DSC in order to collect the solar light and convert it to heat energy. We measured the I-V characteristics of DSC and TEG, assembled to the tandem cell. As a result, it was shown that DSC with carbon nanotube and TEG had the efficiency of 9.1 % and 6.2 %, respectively. From this results, it is expected that the tandem solar cell of the new design has the possibility of enhanced conversion efficiency to exceed above 15 %.