<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Centeno, Pedro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alexandre, Miguel F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chapa, Manuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pinto, Joana V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Deuermeier, Jonas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mateus, Tiago</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fortunato, Elvira</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martins, Rodrigo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Águas, Hugo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mendes, Manuel J</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">{Self-Cleaned Photonic-Enhanced Solar Cells with Nanostructured Parylene-C}</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2000264</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–9</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Abstract Photonic front-coatings with self-cleaning properties are presented as means to enhance the efficiency and outdoor performance of thin-film solar cells, via optical enhancement while simultaneously minimizing soiling-related losses. This is achieved by structuring parylene-C transparent encapsulants using a low-cost and highly-scalable colloidal-lithography methodology. As a result, superhydrophobic surfaces with broadband light-trapping properties are developed. The optimized parylene coatings show remarkably high water contact angles of up to 165.6° and extremely low adhesion, allowing effective surface self-cleaning. The controlled nano/micro-structuring of the surface features also generates strong anti-reflection and light scattering effects, corroborated by numeric electromagnetic modeling, which lead to pronounced photocurrent enhancement along the UV?vis?IR range. The impact of these photonic-structured encapsulants is demonstrated on nanocrystalline silicon solar cells, that show short-circuit current density gains of up to 23.6%, relative to planar reference cells. Furthermore, the improvement of the devices' angular response enables an enhancement of up to 35.2% in the average daily power generation.&lt;/p&gt;
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