Natural creatures have evolved elaborate photonic nanostructures on multiple scales and
dimensions in a hierarchical, organized way to realize controllable absorption, reflection, or …

Novel strategies based on nature-inspired design will play a major role in future photovoltaic
solar cells as a sustainable energy resource. Biomimetic photovoltaic solar cells attracted …

Solar cells can strongly benefit from optical strategies capable of providing the desired
broadband absorption of sunlight and consequent high conversion efficiency. While many …

Nanotechnology is a term for analyzing or artificially creating features with at least one
physical dimension below 100 nanometer (nm), which is 1 Â 10À7 m or 10 millions of a …

In the Panama context, energy consumption in the building sector is mostly related to the
conditioning of indoor spaces for cooling and lighting. Different nature strategies can be …

In this Letter, funnel-shaped silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are newly introduced for highly
efficient light trapping. The proposed designs of nanowires are inspired by the funnel shape …

The commercialization of solar fuel devices requires the development of novel engineered
photoelectrodes for water splitting applications which are based on redundant, cheap, and …

Researchers have derived inspiration from the biophotosynthetic structures in nature and
have started to synthesize the modified bioinspired solar cells copying the evolved organic …

Au-doped ZnO–samarium nitrate (Sm) nanoparticles with fixed concentrations of Sm (1 wt%)
and various concentrations of Au (0.0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 wt%) were prepared and used as …

Light trapping and the broadband absorption of the solar radiation is of interest to various
solar energy harvesting applications. In the current work, we report a new paradigm for light …