Nanowires for high-efficiency, low-cost solar photovoltaics

Y Zhang, H Liu - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Solar energy is abundant, clean, and renewable, making it an ideal energy source. Solar
cells are a good option to harvest this energy. However, it is difficult to balance the cost and …

Advances in flexible electronics and electrochemical sensors using conducting nanomaterials: A review

K Shrivas, A Ghosale, PK Bajpai, T Kant… - Microchemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, more attention is given towards the design and development of flexible printed
electronics and sensor for a wide range of applications using conducting nanomaterials …

Photon-trapping microstructures enable high-speed high-efficiency silicon photodiodes

Y Gao, H Cansizoglu, KG Polat, S Ghandiparsi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-speed, high-efficiency photodetectors play an important role in optical communication
links that are increasingly being used in data centres to handle higher volumes of data traffic …

Nanoscale back contact perovskite solar cell design for improved tandem efficiency

GWP Adhyaksa, E Johlin, EC Garnett - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Tandem photovoltaics, combining absorber layers with two distinct band gap energies into a
single device, provide a practical solution to reduce thermalization losses in solar energy …

Absorption of light in vertical III-V semiconductor nanowires for solar cell and photodetector applications

N Anttu - Crystals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vertical III-V semiconductor nanowires have shown promising absorption of light for solar
cell and photodetector applications. The absorption properties can be tuned through the …

Synthetic methods and electrochemical applications for transition metal phosphide nanomaterials

Y Lu, T Wang, X Li, G Zhang, H Xue, H Pang - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, the great demand for energy has triggered the exploration of new devices for
energy storage and conversion. For these devices, electrode materials with excellent …

Nanopillar quantum well lasers directly grown on silicon and emitting at silicon-transparent wavelengths

F Lu, I Bhattacharya, H Sun, TTD Tran, KW Ng… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Future expansion of computing capabilities relies on a reduction of energy consumption in
silicon-based integrated circuits. A promising solution is to replace electrical wires with …

Long-lived hot carriers in III–V nanowires

D Tedeschi, M De Luca, HA Fonseka, Q Gao… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Heat management mechanisms play a pivotal role in driving the design of nanowire (NW)-
based devices. In particular, the rate at which charge carriers cool down after an external …

Site-controlled growth of monolithic InGaAs/InP quantum well nanopillar lasers on silicon

F Schuster, J Kapraun, GN Malheiros-Silveira… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we report the site-controlled growth of InP nanolasers on a silicon substrate
with patterned SiO2 nanomasks by low-temperature metal–organic chemical vapor …

Electrical characteristics of funnel-shaped silicon nanowire solar cells

GY Abdel-Latif, MFO Hameed… - … of Photonics for …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The electrical characteristics of funnel-shaped silicon nanowire (SiNW) solar cells are
introduced and numerically analyzed. The funnel-shaped NW consists of a cylinder over a …