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Highly Transmissive Scalable Colored Coatings For Architectural Photovoltaic Panels, Akbar Ali Syed

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Highly transmissive coatings were developed by fabricating thin films using SiO₂ and SiO₂/TiO₂ core/shell nanoparticles on glass substrates and on the photovoltaic cell glass covers. This coating is to maintain an attractive color appearance of the exterior surface for architecturally integrated photovoltaics and can be coated on fabricated photovoltaic panels. The color and optical properties of the nanoparticle coating was investigated for different nanoparticle diameters of 200-400 nm for SiO₂ nanoparticles and core/shell nanoparticles having SiO₂/TiO₂ structure with 300 ± 11 nm diameter, and SiO₂/TiO₂/SiO₂ structure with …