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Alfihed, S.; Altuwaijri, R. A.; Alsalman, S. A.; Zaman, A.; Kalathil, S. Optimizing the Indium Tin Oxide Layer Characteristics toward a Low-Cost Dust-Cleaning Process for Solar Panels. Preprints2024, 2024071980. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1980.v1
Alfihed, S.; Altuwaijri, R. A.; Alsalman, S. A.; Zaman, A.; Kalathil, S. Optimizing the Indium Tin Oxide Layer Characteristics toward a Low-Cost Dust-Cleaning Process for Solar Panels. Preprints 2024, 2024071980. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1980.v1
Alfihed, S.; Altuwaijri, R. A.; Alsalman, S. A.; Zaman, A.; Kalathil, S. Optimizing the Indium Tin Oxide Layer Characteristics toward a Low-Cost Dust-Cleaning Process for Solar Panels. Preprints2024, 2024071980. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1980.v1
APA Style
Alfihed, S., Altuwaijri, R. A., Alsalman, S. A., Zaman, A., & Kalathil, S. (2024). Optimizing the Indium Tin Oxide Layer Characteristics toward a Low-Cost Dust-Cleaning Process for Solar Panels. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1980.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Alfihed, S., Adnan Zaman and Shaeen Kalathil. 2024 "Optimizing the Indium Tin Oxide Layer Characteristics toward a Low-Cost Dust-Cleaning Process for Solar Panels" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1980.v1
Abstract
The deposition of dust particles on solar panel modules constitutes a significant challenge, leading to a potential reduction in solar cell performance. This work tackles this issue by investigating the surface modification of a layer of transparent indium tin oxide (ITO), with a detailed analysis of the influence of its characteristics via different annealing conditions/processing. The ITO layer has been studied to enhance its characteristics for dust removal applications. Of particular note is that the developed ITO layer can be applied to dust removal using electrostatic or magnetic-based approaches. Thus, the correlation between annealing gas (using Argon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen), annealing temperature, and annealing ramping rate is explored with the obtained surface topography, as well as electrical and optical properties. The developed ITO layers annealed in the Argon medium at 600°C with an annealing ramping rate of 50°C/s showed smooth surface roughness, the highest electrical conductivity, and a relatively low refractive index. Such findings can play a crucial role in the future implementation of using the enhanced ITO layer for dust mitigation in solar panels, thus improving their long-term performance.
Keywords
ITO annealing; dust mitigation; surface modification; ITO resistivity; ITO refractive index
Subject
Engineering, Other
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