Ultrathin solar cells with thicknesses at least 10 times lower than conventional solar cells
could have the unique potential to efficiently convert solar energy into electricity while …

Ferroelectric materials have been a focus of much research over the last few decades for
their unique piezoelectric and optoelectronic properties. Conventional solar cells have been …

Nanoparticle manufacturing industries use well-established synthesis protocols or
methodology as much as possible. The nanomaterials have unique physical and chemical …

The latent heat storage of PCMs has gained increasing attention in the solar energy
application field due to their high thermal energy storage density. However, the lack of …

Plasmonic effects have been proposed as a solution to overcome the limited light absorption
in thin-film photovoltaic devices, and various types of plasmonic solar cells have been …

Nanostructured materials are advantageous in offering huge surface to volume ratios,
favorable transport properties, altered physical properties, and confinement effects resulting …

This review provides the basic concepts, an overall survey and the state-of-the art of
plasmon-based nanogold photocatalysis using visible light including fundamental …

H2 generation by solar water splitting is one of the most promising solutions to meet the
increasing energy demands of the fast developing society. However, the efficiency of solar …

The emerging field of plasmonics has yielded methods for guiding and localizing light at the
nanoscale, well below the scale of the wavelength of light in free space. Now plasmonics …

When light interacts with a metal nanoparticle (NP), its conduction electrons can be driven
by the incident electric field in collective oscillations known as localized surface plasmon …