TY - JOUR
TI - Cooling solar cells using ZnO nanoparticles as a down-shifter
AU - Bazzari Huda H
AU - Abushgair Khaleel N
AU - Hamdan Mohammad A
AU - Alkhaldi Hashem S
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2020
VL - 24
IS - 2
SP - 809
EP - 814
PT - Article
AB - Down-shifting material is used to enhance the overall efficiency of the  photovoltaic solar cell by reducing the energy of incident photons and then  cooling down the temperature of the PV solar cells. This experimental work  focused on studying the effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles as a downshifting  material on reducing the temperature of the photovoltaic cells. Readings of  temperature and voltage - which were collected on different days in summer  July-showed a good effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on solar cell  temperature. Where there was a significant decrease in cell temperature of  up to 4.5ºC, in addition to an increase in voltage of about 1.5 V.