Halide perovskite-based indoor photovoltaics: recent development and challenges

BT Muhammad, S Kar, M Stephen, WL Leong - Materials Today Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal halide perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology is yet to make its way to enter the
outdoor solar energy harvesting market as a single junction or a tandem cell; recent studies …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress of plasmonic nanostructure-enhanced photovoltaic solar cells

A Ali, F El-Mellouhi, A Mitra, B Aïssa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Enhancement of the electromagnetic properties of metallic nanostructures constitute an
extensive research field related to plasmonics. The latter term is derived from plasmons …

Design of a high-performance titanium nitride metastructure-based solar absorber using quantum computing-assisted optimization

S Kim, S Wu, R Jian, G Xiong, T Luo - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metastructures of titanium nitride (TiN), a plasmonic refractory material, can potentially
achieve high solar absorptance while operating at elevated temperatures, but the design …

Nanometer-mesa inverted-pyramid photonic crystals for thin silicon solar cells

S Almenabawy, Y Zhang, A Flood… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The usage of ultrathin flexible silicon foil can further extend the functionality of silicon and
emerging silicon-based tandem solar cells particularly in building and vehicle-integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic Crystal Structures for Photovoltaic Applications

A Starczewska, M Kępińska - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Photonic crystals are artificial structures with a spatial periodicity of dielectric permittivity on
the wavelength scale. This feature results in a spectral region over which no light can …

Inverse Opal Photonic Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Harvesting in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells

N Daem, A Mayer, G Spronck, P Colson… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Light management strategies using photonic crystals have been proven to efficiently
improve light harvesting and subsequently conversion efficiency of various optoelectronic …

Anodic alumina photonic crystals: Structure engineering, optical properties and prospective applications

G Shang, D Bi, VS Gorelik, G Fei, L Zhang - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anodic alumina photonic crystal is a porous periodic dielectric structure and has been
extensively studied by researchers due to its straightforward preparation processes, porous …

Diameter and gap controlled fabrication of periodic SiMW/SiNW arrays: A broadband absorber for high efficiency silicon solar cell

D Rani, A Kumar, A Saini, D Singh, N Joshi, RK Verma… - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Vertically aligned and periodic silicon micro/nano-wire (SiMW/SiNW) arrays of different
diameters were synthesized by combining lithography-free silica particle patterning, reactive …

E7 nematic liquid crystal encapsulated in a polymeric photonic crystal

E Rusen, A Diacon, RA Mitran, A Dinescu… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents the synthesis and characterization of nano encapsulated liquid crystals
in the polymer (nano-ELCP) obtained by the soap-free emulsion polymerization of the …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of the photon to charge conversion and its implication on photovoltaic cell efficient operation

V Kapsalis, G Kyriakopoulos, M Zamparas, A Tolis - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Efficient photon to charge (PTC) transfer is considered to be the cornerstone of technological
improvements in the photovoltaic (PV) industry, while it constitutes the most common …