Mining the smartness of insect ultrastructures for advanced imaging and illumination

T Chung, Y Lee, SP Yang, K Kim… - Advanced functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biological wonders, found in insects such as antireflecting moth eyes, compound eyes in a
honey bee, firefly lanterns, and iridescent butterfly wings, inspire human beings for …

Passivation-free high performance self-powered photodetector based on Si nanostructure-PEDOT: PSS hybrid heterojunction

KSR Bapathi, MF Abdelbar, W Jevasuwan… - Applied Surface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hybrid heterojunction between organic PEDOT: PSS and inorganic Silicon (Si)
nanostructures is promising for high-performance self-powered photodetectors due to their …

Revolutionizing Wastewater Treatment: Unveiling the efficacy of self-cleaning dual-layer membrane systems

YO Raji, MHD Othman, MA Raji, SC Mamah… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review examines self-cleaning dual-layer membrane systems, which have
demonstrated unprecedented efficacy in wastewater treatment by overcoming traditional …

Broadband and omnidirectional highly-transparent coverglasses coated with biomimetic moth-eye nanopatterned polymer films for solar photovoltaic system …

JW Leem, XY Guan, M Choi, JS Yu - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highly-transparent coverglasses coated with broadband and omnidirectional antireflective
(AR) moth-eye nanopatterned ultra-violet (UV) curable polymer, ie, Norland Optical …

[HTML][HTML] High symmetry nano-photonic quasi-crystals providing novel light management in silicon solar cells

TM Mercier, T Rahman, C Krishnan, E Khorani… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Reduction of surface reflection loss is crucial for high efficiency next generation Si solar
cells. Surface texturing provides a viable method to reduce loss over the full solar …

Electrical performance of efficient quad-crescent-shaped Si nanowire solar cell

R El-Bashar, M Hussein, SF Hegazy, Y Badr… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The electrical characteristics of quad-crescent-shaped silicon nanowire (NW) solar cells
(SCs) are numerically analyzed and as a result their performance optimized. The structure …

Hybrid energy cell with hierarchical nano/micro-architectured polymer film to harvest mechanical, solar, and wind energies individually/simultaneously

B Dudem, YH Ko, JW Leem, JH Lim… - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report the creation of hybrid energy cells based on hierarchical nano/micro-architectured
polydimethylsiloxane (HNMA-PDMS) films with multifunctionality to simultaneously harvest …

Performance enhancement of inclined core-shell nanowire solar cells using multivariable optimization

M Zamani, Z Kordrostami - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an optimized high-performance nanowire array solar cell. Three
approaches have contributed to achieving the highest possible performance of nanowire …

Modelling technique and analysis of porous anti-reflective coatings for reducing wide angle reflectance of thin-film solar cells

T Pickering, K Shanks, S Sundaram - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Bio-inspired anti-reflective (AR) coatings with porous graded refractive index structures are
known to considerably reduce the reflectance of light at optical interfaces, however, research …

Photonic crystal and quasi-crystals providing simultaneous light coupling and beam splitting within a low refractive-index slab waveguide

J Shi, ME Pollard, CA Angeles, R Chen, JC Gates… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Coupling between free space components and slab waveguides is a common requirement
for integrated optical devices, and is typically achieved by end-fire or grating coupling …