Quantum dots for photovoltaics: a tale of two materials

L Duan, L Hu, X Guan, CH Lin, D Chu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum dot (QD) solar cells, benefiting from unique quantum confinement effects and
multiple exciton generation, have attracted great research attention in the past decades …

Quantum junction solar cells: Development and prospects

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, S Hussain, F Kabir… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocrystals, called semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), contain excitons that are three‐
dimensionally bound. QDs exhibit a discontinuous electronic energy level structure that is …

Balancing crop production and energy harvesting in organic solar-powered greenhouses

E Ravishankar, M Charles, Y Xiong, R Henry… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Adding semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) to a greenhouse structure enables
simultaneous plant cultivation and electricity generation, thereby reducing the greenhouse …

Colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics: Current progress and path to gigawatt scale enabled by smart manufacturing

AR Kirmani, JM Luther, M Abolhasani… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have lately been pursued with intense vigor for optoelectronic
applications such as photovoltaics (PV), flexible electronics, displays, mid-infrared …

Building integrated photovoltaics: A concise description of the current state of the art and possible research pathways

BP Jelle - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) offer an aesthetical, economical and technical
solution to integrate solar cells harvesting solar radiation to produce electricity within the …

Towards the commercialization of colloidal quantum dot solar cells: perspectives on device structures and manufacturing

H Lee, HJ Song, M Shim, C Lee - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, colloidal quantum dot solar cells (CQD-SCs) have been developed
rapidly, with their performances reaching over 16% power conversion efficiency …

PbS colloidal quantum dot inks for infrared solar cells

S Zheng, J Chen, EMJ Johansson, X Zhang - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Infrared PbS colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based materials receive significant attention
because of its unique properties. The PbS CQD ink that originates from ligand exchange of …

Highly efficient inverted structural quantum dot solar cells

R Wang, X Wu, K Xu, W Zhou, Y Shang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Highly efficient PbS colloidal quantum dot (QD) solar cells based on an inverted structure
have been missing for a long time. The bottlenecks are the construction of an effective p–n …

Toward efficient hybrid solar cells comprising quantum dots and organic materials: progress, strategies, and perspectives

J Liu, J Wang, Y Liu, K Xian, K Zhou, J Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The emerging solution-processing photovoltaic technologies, eg, quantum dot (QD) and
organic solar cells, have witnessed unprecedented progress in the past decade …

Design strategy of quantum dot thin‐film solar cells

T Kim, S Lim, S Yun, S Jeong, T Park, J Choi - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum dots (QDs) are emerging photovoltaic materials that display exclusive
characteristics that can be adjusted through modification of their size and surface chemistry …