Optical nanomaterials with focus on rare earth doped oxide: A Review

SK Gupta, K Sudarshan, RM Kadam - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Optical nanomaterials (ONMs) have attracted significant attention of the global research
community owing to their several superior advantages. Some of the ONMs depict negligible …

Materials for downconversion in solar cells: Perspectives and challenges

MB De la Mora, O Amelines-Sarria, BM Monroy… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Solar energy has an enormous potential to solve society energy needs in a sustainable way.
Notably, photovoltaic systems (PV) permit to obtain electricity based on solar energy …

A review of third generation solar cells

N Shah, AA Shah, PK Leung, S Khan, K Sun, X Zhu… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Third-generation solar cells are designed to achieve high power-conversion efficiency while
being low-cost to produce. These solar cells have the ability to surpass the Shockley …

Status of BIPV and BAPV system for less energy-hungry building in India—A review

P Reddy, MVNS Gupta, S Nundy, A Karthick, A Ghosh - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The photovoltaic (PV) system is one of the most promising technologies that generate
benevolent electricity. Therefore, fossil fuel-generated electric power plants, that emit an …

Optimal spectra management for self-power producing greenhouses for hot arid climates

Y Bicer, MU Sajid, M Al-Breiki - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The air conditioning in hot and arid climates remains one of the grand challenges for food
production in greenhouses. Therefore, significant efforts are given to determine the suitable …

Synthesis and luminescence characterization of downconversion and downshifting phosphor for efficiency enhancement of solar cells: Perspectives and challenges

NS Satpute, CM Mehare, A Tiwari… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Currently, the world is facing an energy crisis. One of the techniques to fulfill the energy
demand is to increase the utilization of solar energy. For harvesting solar energy in large …

Co-sensitization of metal based N719 and metal free D35 dyes: An effective strategy to improve the performance of DSSC

LND Quang, AK Kaliamurthy, NH Hao - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The co-sensitization of dye sensitizers has been demonstrated as a potential way to improve
the efficiency of DSSC, because of its positive effects such as reducing dye aggregation on …

Enhancement of photoconversion efficiency of CdSe quantum dots sensitized Al doped ZnO/Si heterojunction device decorated with Ag nanostructures

E Song, HT Nguyen, J Park, TT Tran, M Kumar… - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In this work, CdSe/ZnS QDs decorated Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have been
deposited on Si/AZO heterojunction to promote the absorption capability and external …

Photon shifting and trapping in perovskite solar cells for improved efficiency and stability

S Haque, M Alexandre, AT Vicente, K Li… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Advanced light management techniques can enhance the sunlight absorption of perovskite
solar cells (PSCs). When located at the front, they may act as a UV barrier, which is …

Synergistically designed antireflective cover for improving wide-angle photovoltaic efficiencies

JH Kim, JW Cho, I Jeon, KT Jeong, HJ Kang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrated that a well-designed nanopatterned cover improves photovoltaic
efficiency across a wide range of incident angles (θ). A nanopatterned cover was created …