Amorphous inorganic semiconductors for the development of solar cell, photoelectrocatalytic and photocatalytic applications

B Wang, GM Biesold, M Zhang, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amorphous inorganic semiconductors have attracted growing interest due to their unique
electrical and optical properties that arise from their intrinsic disordered structure and …

Nanotechnology‐enabled energy harvesting for self‐powered micro‐/nanosystems

ZL Wang, W Wu - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Health, infrastructure, and environmental monitoring as well as networking and defense
technologies are only some of the potential areas of application of micro‐/nanosystems …

Anti-reflective coating materials: A holistic review from PV perspective

N Shanmugam, R Pugazhendhi… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The solar photovoltaic (PV) cell is a prominent energy harvesting device that reduces the
strain in the conventional energy generation approach and endorses the prospectiveness of …

Metal assisted chemical etching for high aspect ratio nanostructures: A review of characteristics and applications in photovoltaics

X Li - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Metal assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) is a recently developed anisotropic wet etching
method that is capable of producing high aspect ratio semiconductor nanostructures from …

Design and fabrication of silicon nanowires towards efficient solar cells

P Yu, J Wu, S Liu, J Xiong, C Jagadish, ZM Wang - Nano Today, 2016 - Elsevier
The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Thermoelectrics of nanowires

R Chen, J Lee, W Lee, D Li - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

Surface Recombination Limited Lifetimes of Photoexcited Carriers in Few-Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide MoS2

H Wang, C Zhang, F Rana - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present results on photoexcited carrier lifetimes in few-layer transition metal
dichalcogenide MoS2 using nondegenerate ultrafast optical pump–probe technique. Our …

Filter-free image sensor pixels comprising silicon nanowires with selective color absorption

H Park, Y Dan, K Seo, YJ Yu, PK Duane, M Wober… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The organic dye filters of conventional color image sensors achieve the red/green/blue
response needed for color imaging, but have disadvantages related to durability, low …

GaAs nanopillar-array solar cells employing in situ surface passivation

G Mariani, AC Scofield, CH Hung… - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Arrays of III–V direct-bandgap semiconductor nanopillars represent promising photovoltaic
candidates due to their inherent high optical absorption coefficients and minimized reflection …

Introductory lecture: origins and applications of efficient visible photoluminescence from silicon-based nanostructures

L Canham - Faraday Discussions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …