In agreement with Chandra, thin film solar cells are still and will continue hot research topic to produce cheap high conversion efficiency stable solar cells.
So, on the top is the thin film single crystal silicon solar cell with high efficiency by surface passivation techniques and the use of photonic crystals.
Perovskite solar cells are promising as they reached respectful conversion efficiencies but they have problems with material stability.
Organic solar cells are also promising but have serious problems concerning the low mobility and low dielectric constant in addition to durability against environmental effects.
low cost heavily doped solar cells can be produced since the heavily doped silicon is cheap.Conference Paper Design and simulation of proposed low cost solar cell struct...
I think that the encapsulation process of the solar panels must receive more research to produce repairable solar cells panels:Article A.A. Elshazly, A. Zekry , M.A. El-Koosy and M.s. Farid, “Thr...
There is research work on power electronics of the PV systems.
There may be research on DC loads for PV systems such that one can directly consume the DC generated PV power with less power conditioning circuits. On every suitable example of a DC load is the power LEDs for lighting.
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Read a basic book on thin films solar cells. There are lot of literature available on internet. Current trend is perovskite solar cells and organic solar cells. Your research work will also depend on facility available at your place and grant which you have for purchasing the chemicals. So, it will be better if you consult this problem to your thesis supervisor.
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No of issues are associated with solar based converters used to connect to the grid which are second harmonic frequency component and leakage current problem. The topology of converter may be used as a research topic to solve these problems.
In agreement with Chandra, thin film solar cells are still and will continue hot research topic to produce cheap high conversion efficiency stable solar cells.
So, on the top is the thin film single crystal silicon solar cell with high efficiency by surface passivation techniques and the use of photonic crystals.
Perovskite solar cells are promising as they reached respectful conversion efficiencies but they have problems with material stability.
Organic solar cells are also promising but have serious problems concerning the low mobility and low dielectric constant in addition to durability against environmental effects.
low cost heavily doped solar cells can be produced since the heavily doped silicon is cheap.Conference Paper Design and simulation of proposed low cost solar cell struct...
I think that the encapsulation process of the solar panels must receive more research to produce repairable solar cells panels:Article A.A. Elshazly, A. Zekry , M.A. El-Koosy and M.s. Farid, “Thr...
There is research work on power electronics of the PV systems.
There may be research on DC loads for PV systems such that one can directly consume the DC generated PV power with less power conditioning circuits. On every suitable example of a DC load is the power LEDs for lighting.
Best wishes
Dear respected Vikash Vashisht,
Going into study on solar cell is a good idea. I have some articles on solar panel in my profile. I am wishing you all the best.
Best regards.
Kifilideen.
It is a good subject for research, although there is a lot of work done, on different types of cells and various components. You are going to need sophisticated equipment, maybe that's the only problem.
If you want to do a more direct work, you can research on the application of solar panels in the current situation: production of electrical energy in the place where you work, optimization of photovoltaic installations, reduction of CO2 emissions, etc.
There is also a lot of work done on this subject, but it may not exist for the area and the country in which you reside.
It's possible to study:
- Large photovoltaic power plants (from 200 to 1000 MW)
- Self-consumption in roofs of buildings
- Isolated installations with and without support generators
- Mass storage systems for the moments when there is no photovoltaic production, etc.
There are many more topics to work on, but these can be a starting point.
This is the best topic you can work on today when it comes to finding alternative sources of energy. However, I have seen above many good answers to your question. Some answers are focusing on the physical aspect of the solar cell, others are dealing with your question at the system level. At the physical level, I support Chandra's suggestion. At the system level, I am for research works oriented towards having places in the world where PV systems can be implemented at low cost (avoiding the cost of land and storage when possible).
Good Luck!
Solar cell is an interesting research topic .A lot has been done on it.There are a lot of literatures regarding this topic.However researchers need to work on the modification and improvement of the components that makes up the cell using local materials without compromising standards quality and efficiency.
Actually the fact is, even the type of energy or the process of generating electricity through solar cells are renewable, but solar cell itself is not renewable. The lifespan of a normal solar cell is averagely 15 years. After 15 years what will happen to those solar cell ? How one will recycle those cell as the solar cells are itself made up of toxic materials. Now recent researches are going on Organic Solar Cell, which is TO SOME EXTENT bio-degradable and efficiency is higher that P-N junction PV cells.
The topic proposed by Aung is very important since the minority carrier lifetime is limiting the photoconversion efficiency PCE in all types of solar cells. In my research i gave this topic my attention. I would like that you follow the link:Article A distributed SPICE-model of a solar cell
For the recombination mechanisms and their rate equations please follow the link:Book Electronic Devices
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Dear Prof. Abdelhalim Zekry ,
Thanks a lot for your opinion.
Of course, the power conversion efficiency of Solar cell is directly proportional to the minority carrier lifetime. It is related with the recombination of the material.
Three types of recombination are Radiative, Auger, and SRH (Shockley-Read-Hall).
Sincerely
Dear Vikash,
You can focus on control strategies of PV systems under dust accumulation and unfavourable weather conditions.
Please read the work by
The sun group
at
Northeastern Universiy
at
Boston, MA
Agree with Prof. Abdelhalim Zekry and Prof. Aung Ze Ya . In addition to that, Perovskite solar cells are getting lot of attention by researchers as well as by industry people.
Regards.
Of course Vikash Vashisht , solar cell is a hot topic now a days. You could work on stability of organic solar cell which is the main research problem among the scientist of relevant filed and also can work on the interface (ETL, HTL) of Organic solar cell to produce new materials and develop new strategy to enhance the efficiency of OPV. Good Luck
Trend is going in the perovskite and Dye sensitized solar cell. Specially you can work on the stability of dye sensitized solar cell.
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Vikash Vashisht of course ,you can work on solar cell. Among the solar cell, perovskite solar cell is the promising and most interesting for the researcher in the present time.
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