Butterfly inspired functional materials

Z Chen, Z Zhang, Y Wang, D Xu, Y Zhao - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of the most complex structures in nature, butterflies have attracted wide interest over
the past few decades. Inspired by these delicate structures and the marvelous derived …

Refractive index sensor based on concentric triple racetrack resonators side-coupled to metal–insulator–metal waveguide for glucose sensing

MR Rakhshani - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A refractive index sensor using two concentric triple racetrack resonators with plasmonic
metal–insulator–metal (MIM) waveguides is suggested to provide more freedom for sensing …

High sensitivity metal-insulator-metal sensor based on ring-hexagonal resonator with a couple of square cavities connected

F Aghaei, H Bahador - Physica Scripta, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The necessity for cheaper and more efficient sensors has been the main motivation for the
use of Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) sensors. In this paper, a micro-dimensional refractive …

Zinc oxide nanodiffusers to enhance p3ht: pcbm organic solar cells performance

O Cardozo, S Farooq, PMA Farias… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
This work proposes a new approach on exploring Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanodiffusers to improve
organic solar cell (OSC) performance. ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) dispersed on the OSC top …

Plasmonic enhancement of photovoltaic characteristics of organic solar cells by employing parabola nanostructures at the back of the solar cell

PK Das, A Dhawan - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, we demonstrate the enhanced performance of organic solar cells (OSCs)
comprising low band gap photoactive layers (PMDPP3T: PC70BM) and 2-dimensional (2D) …

Tandem organic solar cells containing plasmonic nanospheres and nanostars for enhancement in short circuit current density

K Kumar, A Das, UK Kumawat, A Dhawan - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose double junction tandem organic solar cells with PTB7: PC_70BM
and PDPPSDTPS: PC_60BM as the polymeric active materials to cover the wide solar …

Smart strategy of butterfly wing scales to control the light diffusion and absorption

SK Saini, S Sharma, N Singh, M Khokhar, RV Nair - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The sparkling colors on the wing scales of butterflies are one of the most fascinating light–
matter interactions in nature and have been an intense area of research in recent times …

Synergetic effects of a front ITO nanocylinder array and a back square Al array to enhance light absorption for organic solar cells

W Liu, L Zhang, Y Wang, X Yao, C Xie, Q Liu, J Li… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Efficient light management is critical to obtain high performance for organic solar cells
(OSCs), which aims to solve the contradiction between limited carrier extraction and light …

Synergistic effects of dual-optical-nanocavity resonance and localized surface plasmons to enhance light absorption in organic solar cells

W Liu, J Li, Y Wang, L Zhang, Z Gao, Q Liu, D He, Y Li - Organic Electronics, 2022 - Elsevier
For organic solar cells, it is a vital issue to effectively confine more light in a thin photoactive
layer to guarantee both efficient light absorption and effective collection for photogenerated …

Modeling and characteristics of a nanostructured NiO/GeSe core–shell perovskite solar cell

A Khaled, MFO Hameed, M Hussein, KTV Grattan… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently seen considerable
progress, and this has encouraged researchers to evolve and test numerous different and …