A review on the role of materials science in solar cells

N Asim, K Sopian, S Ahmadi, K Saeedfar… - … and sustainable energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
The demand for energy of modern society is constantly increasing. The desire for
environmental-friendly alternative energy resources with the least dependency on fossil …

Factors influencing the efficiency of photovoltaic system

R Venkateswari, S Sreejith - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Long-time search for green energy as a replacement of the depleting conventional sources
to the eternal power demand still remains as an unanswered question. But the steady …

Lighting porphyrins and phthalocyanines for molecular photovoltaics

MV Martinez-Diaz, G de la Torre, T Torres - Chemical Communications, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) represents one of the most promising technological
areas. Porphyrins and phthalocyanines are perfectly suited for their integration in light …

Hybrid solar cell on a carbon fiber

DA Grynko, AN Fedoryak, PS Smertenko… - Nanoscale Research …, 2016 - Springer
In this work, a method to assemble nanoscale hybrid solar cells in the form of a brush of
radially oriented CdS nanowire crystals around a single carbon fiber is demonstrated for the …

Growth of CdS thin films and nanowires for flexible photoelectrochemical cells

ND Sankir, B Dogan - Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2011 - Elsevier
In this study, cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanocrystal thin films and nanowires have been
deposited onto mechanically flexible substrates via dc-electrodeposition, which is a very …

Perspective of nanomaterials in the performance of solar cells

HMA Javed, W Que, MR Ahmad, K Ali… - Solar Cells: From …, 2020 - Springer
Solar cells have a great promise to solve the world energy crises in a sustainable way. In
recent years, numerous efforts have been devoted on different aspects and performance of …

Recent developments of hybrid nanocrystal/polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells

A Tang, S Qu, F Teng, Y Hou, Y Wang… - … of nanoscience and …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Hybrid nanocrystal/polymer bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells consisting of colloidal
inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals as electron acceptors and conjugated polymers as …

Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties of in Situ Synthesized ZnO–CuPc Nanocomposites

M Ghosh, N Padma, R Tewari… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanocomposites of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) have been
grown in situ in a colloidal solution of CuPc using zinc acetate as precursor and sodium …

Effect of donor-to-acceptor ratio on optical, electrical properties and parameters of hybrid solar cell

KA Mohammed, KM Ziadan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - World Scientific
There has been a recent uptick in interest in hybrid solar cells, which use polymeric organic
materials with semiconductor nanoparticles in the active layer. In this paper, hybrid material …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of CdSe loading on bulk heterojunction solar cell parameters

KA Mohammeda, AJ Alrubaieb, KM Ziadanc… - J. Ovonic Res …, 2022 - academia.edu
Conjugated polymers are used in a wide variety of applications and industries because of
their many useful properties, including their ease of production, low cost, and the fact that …