III-V semiconductor-based planar multi-junction solar cells synthesized to match the solar
spectrum, increase absorption, and reduce thermalization loss are today's world-record …

Nanowires have many interesting properties that are of advantage for solar cells, such as
the epitaxial combination of lattice-mismatched materials without plastic deformation. This …

First-principles calculations have been undertaken to theoretically model ultrathin SnX (X=
S, Se) nanowires (NWs). The formation energies of the ultrathin SnX NWs are negative and …

Field‐emission cold cathodes are the key components of vacuum nanoelectronics that offer
great advantages over other electron sources based on the thermionic or photoelectric …

DFT-based calculations were undertaken to, first, fully optimize and study the structural and
electrical properties of bare BP nanowire (NW) in its hexagonal wurtzite (WZ) phase. The …

Nanowires offer unprecedented flexibility as nanoscale building blocks for future
optoelectronic devices, especially with respect to nanowire solar cells and light-emitting …

A method based on extraction of the effective absorption coefficient using Beer–Lambert's
law on simulated transmissions is used to understand the optical absorption characteristics …

Nanowire solar cells have the potential to reach the same efficiencies as the world-record III–
V solar cells while using a fraction of the material. For solar energy harvesting, large-area …

Epitaxy is the process of crystallization of monocrystalline layers and nanostructures on a
crystalline substrate. It allows for the crystallization of various semiconductor layers on a …

Commercially available solar cells typically operate in the ray optics regime, where
traversable distances within the solar cell are many wavelengths long. In this chapter, we …