Enhancing solar cell efficiency: the search for luminescent materials as spectral converters

X Huang, S Han, W Huang, X Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Photovoltaic (PV) technologies for solar energy conversion represent promising routes to
green and renewable energy generation. Despite relevant PV technologies being available …

[HTML][HTML] Improving spectral modification for applications in solar cells: A review

J Day, S Senthilarasu, TK Mallick - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The spectral mismatch between solar cells and incident radiation is a fundamental factor
limiting their efficiencies. There exist materials and luminescent processes which can modify …

Recent progress in the lanthanide-complexes based luminescent hybrid materials

P Li, H Li - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Lanthanide-based hybrid materials constructed by host–guest assembly strategy, displaying
improved stability, better procesability and excellent luminescence performance …

Down‐conversion materials for organic solar cells: Progress, challenges, and perspectives: Photovoltaics: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Yongfang Li

R Datt, S Bishnoi, HKH Lee, S Arya, S Gupta… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and operational
lifetime have made remarkable progress during the last decade by improving the active …

Luminescent solar concentrators: challenges for lanthanide-based organic–inorganic hybrid materials

SFH Correia, V de Zea Bermudez… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices comprising a transparent matrix
embedding optically active centres that absorb the incident radiation, which is re-emitted at a …

Improvement in multi‐crystalline silicon solar cell efficiency via addition of luminescent material to EVA encapsulation layer

E Klampaftis, BS Richards - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper shows that an enhancement in the performance of commercial screen‐printed
multi‐crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules can be achieved via luminescent down …

Lanthanides in solar energy conversion

JCG Bünzli, AS Chauvin - Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare …, 2014 - Elsevier
Solar energy represents an abundant (1000 W m− 2) and seemingly cheap source of
energy. One way to tap it is to transform light into electricity with photovoltaic devices. Single …

Encapsulation of PV modules using ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer as the encapsulant

S Jiang, K Wang, H Zhang, Y Ding… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulation materials have attracted a lot of attention due to
their extensive applications in solar cells. Nearly 80% of photovoltaic (PV) modules are …

Lanthanide complexes based on β-diketonates and a tetradentate chromophore highly luminescent as powders and in polymers

ES Andreiadis, N Gauthier, D Imbert… - Inorganic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A new type of octacoordinated ternary β-diketonates complexes of terbium and europium
has been prepared using the anionic tetradentate terpyridine-carboxylate ligand (L) as a …

DFT, DFTB and TD-DFT theoretical investigations of π-conjugated molecules based on thieno [2, 3-b] indole for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

R El Mouhi, A Slimi, A Fitri, AT Benjelloun… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the electrochemical, photovoltaic and absorption properties of the new
designed organic sensitizers dyes: Dye-1, Dye-2, Dye-3 and Dye-4 based on Dye-R, of D-π …