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 …

Down‐conversion materials for organic solar cells: Progress, challenges, and perspectives: Photovoltaics: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Yongfang Li

R Datt, S Bishnoi, HKH Lee, S Arya, S Gupta… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and operational
lifetime have made remarkable progress during the last decade by improving the active …

Spectroscopic and photoluminescence characteristics of Sm3+ doped calcium aluminozincate phosphor for applications in w-LED

S Kaur, AS Rao, M Jayasimhadri - Ceramics International, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Monophase Calcium Aluminozincate (Ca 3 Al 4 ZnO 10) phosphor doped with Sm
3+ ions by varying concentrations have been prepared at 1300° C using conventional solid …

Eu3+, Sm3+ Deep‐Red Phosphors as Novel Materials for White Light‐Emitting Diodes and Simultaneous Performance Enhancement of Organic–Inorganic …

SU Khan, WU Khan, WU Khan, D Khan, S Saeed… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The luminous efficiency of inorganic white light‐emitting diodes, to be used by the next
generation as light initiators, is continuously progressing and is an emerging interest for …

Top-down strategy toward versatile graphene quantum dots for organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells

Y Qin, Y Cheng, L Jiang, X Jin, M Li, X Luo… - ACS Sustainable …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metal oxide nanocrystals have been pursued for various applications in photovoltaics as a
buffer layer. However, it remains a challenging task to adjust their energy levels to achieve a …

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 …

Simultaneous enhancement in performance and UV-light stability of organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells using a samarium-based down conversion material

NU Rahman, WU Khan, W Li, S Khan, J Khan… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Extending the spectral response from the ultraviolet (UV) to the visible-light range and
enhancing the UV-light stability are two remaining challenges for the development of …

Development of intelligent fuzzy controller for a two-axis solar tracking system

CH Huang, HY Pan, KC Lin - Applied Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes the development of a two-axis sun tracking solar energy system using
fuzzy logic as intelligent quality policy. To achieve maximum efficiency for solar panels, it is …

S-doped CQDs tailored transparent counter electrodes for high-efficiency bifacial dye-sensitized solar cells

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, J Duan, Q Tang - Electrochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Bifacial photovoltaics are promising devices for significantly harvesting solar energy and
generating power from either front or rear side. We present here the fabrication of new …