Nanostructures for light trapping in thin film solar cells

A Peter Amalathas, MM Alkaisi - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Thin film solar cells are one of the important candidates utilized to reduce the cost of
photovoltaic production by minimizing the usage of active materials. However, low light …

Plasmonic‐enhanced organic photovoltaics: Breaking the 10% efficiency barrier

Q Gan, FJ Bartoli, ZH Kafafi - Advanced materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in molecular organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have shown 10% power
conversion efficiency (PCE) for single‐junction cells, which put them in direct competition …

Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells

Z Yu, A Raman, S Fan - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Establishing the fundamental limit of nanophotonic light-trapping schemes is of paramount
importance and is becoming increasingly urgent for current solar cell research. The standard …

Comparison of the device physics principles of planar and radial pn junction nanorod solar cells

BM Kayes, HA Atwater, NS Lewis - Journal of applied physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Comparison of the device physics principles of planar and radial pn junction nanorod solar cells
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Tandem solar cells based on high-efficiency c-Si bottom cells: top cell requirements for> 30% efficiency

TP White, NN Lal, KR Catchpole - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tandem solar cells based on crystalline silicon present a practical route toward low-cost
cells with efficiencies above 30%. Here, we evaluate a dual-junction tandem configuration …

CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells exceeding efficiency 1% at full-sun intensity

HJ Lee, JH Yum, HC Leventis… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Colloidal cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs) have been prepared and exploited
as inorganic dyes to sensitize a large-band-gap TiO 2 layer for QD-sensitized solar cells …

ZnO nanowires for solar cells: A comprehensive review

V Consonni, J Briscoe, E Kärber, X Li… - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As an abundant and non-toxic wide band gap semiconductor with a high electron mobility,
ZnO in the form of nanowires (NWs) has emerged as an important electron transporting …

Thin film solar modules: the low cost, high throughput and versatile alternative to Si wafers

S Hegedus - Progress in photovoltaics: research and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film solar cells (TFSC) have passed adolescence and are ready to make a substantial
contribution to the world's electricity generation. They can have advantages over c‐Si solar …

Dipole-field-assisted charge extraction in metal-perovskite-metal back-contact solar cells

X Lin, AN Jumabekov, NN Lal, AR Pascoe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites are low-cost solution-processable solar cell
materials with photovoltaic properties that rival those of crystalline silicon. The perovskite …

All-solid-state, semiconductor-sensitized nanoporous solar cells

G Hodes, D Cahen - Accounts of chemical research, 2012 - ACS Publications
Despite the rapid increase in solar cell manufacturing capacity (∼ 50 GWp in 2011),
maintaining this continued expansion will require resolving some major fabrication issues …