Rare earth doped zinc oxide nanophosphor powder: a future material for solid state lighting and solar cells

V Kumar, OM Ntwaeaborwa, T Soga, V Dutta… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive review of up-conversion (UP) and down-conversion (DC) or down shifting
of rare earth (RE) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanophosphors is presented. Research interest in …

A Deep-Red Emission Phosphor Y2SrAl4SiO12:Ce3+, Cr3+ and Its Utilization in Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

X Ma, T Seto, Y Wang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of crystalline silicon solar cells has reached a
bottleneck. Further improving the PCE is an important current research topic. This Letter …

Floating, flexible polymeric dye‐sensitized solar‐cell architecture: the way of near‐future photovoltaics

F Bella, A Lamberti, S Bianco, E Tresso… - Advanced Materials …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐cured polymer‐based flexible dye‐sensitized solar cells with a patterned “Fakir”‐
shaped super‐hydrophobic architecture on the external sided are demonstrated for the first …

Investigation of n-ZnO/p-Si and n-TiO2/p-Si Heterojunction Solar Cells: TCAD + DFT

J Gulomov, O Accouche, R Aliev, R Ghandour… - Ieee …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on exploring new materials and structure as a means to increase the
efficiency of solar cells. Since silicon is widespread on earth, it is desirable to study …

Room-Temperature and Ultrafast Synthesis of Highly Luminescent and Extremely Small Eu3+-Doped YVO4 Nanocrystals

B Li, M Liu, X Shi, Q Cao, Z Ni, C Lu… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the past, an Eu3+-doped YVO4 bulk phosphor with a photoluminescence quantum yield
(PLQY) of 70% was prepared by a high-temperature solid-state reaction method at 1000° C …

Effect of anti microbial and fluorescence on L-Alaninium maleate (LAM) macro and nano crystals

K Senthilkannan, BK Khan, HAJ Ali… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fluorescence (FL) and Anti Microbial (AM) effects of the L-Alaninium maleate
which is Zwitter ionic in nature is studied and reported, XRD data reveals that it is …

Increased short-circuit current density and external quantum efficiency of silicon and dye sensitised solar cells through plasmonic luminescent down-shifting layers

H Ahmed, J Doran, SJ McCormack - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Luminescent down-shifting (LDS) is a purely optical method to improve the short-wavelength
response of photovoltaics by red-shifting the incident solar spectrum. This work is the first to …

Efficiency boost in Si-based solar cells using tellurite glass cover layer doped with Eu3+ and silver nanoparticles

JAM Garcia, L Bontempo, LA Gomez-Malagon… - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, the relative efficiency of a solar cell covered with tellurite glasses (TeO 2-ZnO
and TeO 2-ZnO-Na 2 O) doped with and without europium ions and silver (Ag) nanoparticles …

Downshifting and antireflective thin films for solar module power enhancement

Y He, J Liu, SJ Sung, C Chang - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Efforts to enhance the solar conversion efficiency have prevailed for decades. There is a
growing interest in improving the spectral response of solar modules, especially in …

Improving Efficiency and Light Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells by Incorporating YVO4:Eu3+, Bi3+ Nanophosphor into the Mesoporous TiO2 Layer

J Jin, H Li, C Chen, B Zhang, W Bi, Z Song… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Even though a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 22.1% is achieved in the
perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the ultraviolet (UV) light stability in PSCs is still a challenge …