<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ferhati Hichem</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Djeffal Fayçal</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Srairi Fawzi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Enhancement of the absorbance figure of merit in amorphous-silicon pin solar cell by using optimized intermediate metallic layers, ISSN 0030-4026</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Optik</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030402616312591</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Volume 130</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pp 473-480</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div id=&quot;abst0005&quot;&gt;
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		&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In this paper, a new approach based on optimized intermediate &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/metallic-thin-film&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Metallic Thin Film from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;metallic thin film&lt;/a&gt; engineering aspect is proposed to improve the absorption behavior for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/amorphous-silicon&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Amorphous Silicon from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;amorphous-Silicon&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;a-Si:H&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;em&gt;p-i-n&lt;/em&gt; Solar Cell. The overall solar cell optical performance comparison between the conventional design and a proposed design including three different intermediate metallic layers (&lt;em&gt;Au&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ag&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ti&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;) is carried out numerically using accurate solutions of Maxwell’s equations. It is found that the proposed design with intermediate metallic sub-layers’ engineering provides superior integral absorption in comparison to that offered by the conventional structure. Therefore, the introduced intermediate metallic layers play a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/paramount-role&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Paramount Role from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;paramount role&lt;/a&gt; in increasing the light absorbance and modulate the electric field in the intrinsic region, where more light can be absorbed again by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;a-Si&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/near-infrared&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about near Infrared from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;near infrared&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/infrared-region&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Infrared Region from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;infrared-regions&lt;/a&gt; using titanium as intermediate metallic layers. Furthermore, a hybrid computation based on combined numerical- metaheuristic modeling approach is proposed to boost the solar cell performance by optimizing the intermediate metallic layers. The obtained results indicate the advantage of the proposed design methodology in improving the amorphous solar cell performances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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