Synthesis and characterization of down-shifting ln3+ doped lanthanum-based nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications

Identifier:  TDX:1158

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1158

Authors:  Méndez Málaga, Maria

Abstract:
Since the Sun provides Earth with as much energy per hour as human civilization uses every year, the photovoltaic energy plays a very promising challenge. However, the major issue in the photovoltaic cells lies in its poor stability, high prices and low efficiencies. In this thesis, we suggest using solar spectral modification to overcome the classical efficiency limit of the existing solar cells. Thus, down-shifting Ln3+ doped lanthanum-based nanoparticles were synthesized by using different methods in order to obtain the best particles for photovoltaic applications. These nanoparticles are able to absorb in one part of the electromagnetic spectrum and emit in another different very efficiently. In this way, the photovoltaic efficiencies of bulk heterojunction organic and hybrid solar cells were measured obtaining promising results for future scientific prospects