Scalable and Ultrathin High‐Temperature Solar Selective Absorbing Coatings Based on the High‐Entropy Nanoceramic AlCrWTaNbTiN with High Photothermal …

CY He, XH Gao, XL Qiu, DM Yu, HX Guo, G Liu - Solar Rrl, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy ceramics, especially high‐entropy alloy nitrides (HEANs), have attracted
increasing attention in recent years due to their unique structural characteristics that result in …

[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 …

Silicon microwire arrays with nanoscale spacing for radial junction c-Si solar cells with an efficiency of 20.5%

N Kim, D Choi, H Kim, HD Um, K Seo - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Structural optimization of microwire arrays is important for the successful demonstration of
the practical feasibility of radial junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. In this study, we …

An efficient and effective design of InP nanowires for maximal solar energy harvesting

D Wu, X Tang, K Wang, Z He, X Li - Nanoscale research letters, 2017 - Springer
Solar cells based on subwavelength-dimensions semiconductor nanowire (NW) arrays
promise a comparable or better performance than their planar counterparts by taking the …

Subwavelength nonimaging light concentrators for the harvesting of the solar radiation

G Marko, A Prajapati, G Shalev - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Broadband absorption of the solar radiation with surface arrays of subwavelength light funnels

A Prajapati, Y Nissan, T Gabay, G Shalev - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Surface arrays of subwavelength silicon light funnels (LFs) were recently introduced as a
promising new avenue towards efficient light trapping and the broadband absorption of the …

An analytic approach for optimal geometrical design of GaAs nanowires for maximal light harvesting in photovoltaic cells

D Wu, X Tang, K Wang, X Li - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) with subwavelength scale diameters have demonstrated
superior light trapping features, which unravel a new pathway for low cost and high …

Broadband and omnidirectional antireflection surfaces based on deep subwavelength features for harvesting of the solar energy

A Prajapati, J Llobet, PC Sousa, H Fonseca… - Solar …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Broadband and omnidirectional antireflective surfaces are important to various solar energy
technologies. The utilization of deep subwavelength features is reported for decrement in …

Ultrabroad wavelength absorption in high-temperature solar selective absorber coatings enabled by high-entropy nanoceramic AlTiZrHfNbN for high-performance …

SS Zhao, CY He, K Chen, BH Liu, XL Qiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The solar selective absorber coating (SSAC), which can maximally harvest solar energy
over a broad wavelength range with near-perfect spectral selectivity, is of essential …

Flexible omnidirectional and polarisation-insensitive broadband plasmon-enhanced absorber

W Dong, T Cao, K Liu, RE Simpson - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
We demonstrate a facile method to fabricate Ag-Sb 2 S 3 nanoporous plasmonic absorbers
on plastic, crystalline, and glassy substrates. Our lithography-free method exploits the …