Nanostructures for light trapping in thin film solar cells

A Peter Amalathas, MM Alkaisi - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Thin film solar cells are one of the important candidates utilized to reduce the cost of
photovoltaic production by minimizing the usage of active materials. However, low light …

Photonics empowered passive radiative cooling

Y Zhang, X Chen, B Cai, H Luan… - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Passive radiative cooling has recently received renewed interest because of its
unprecedented capabilities in cooling terrestrial objects below ambient air temperature …

Flexibly tunable high-quality-factor induced transparency in plasmonic systems

H Lu, X Gan, D Mao, B Jia, J Zhao - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The quality (Q) factor and tunability of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)-like
effect in plasmonic systems are restrained by the intrinsic loss and weak adjustability of …

Ultraviolet plasmonic aluminium nanoparticles for highly efficient light incoupling on silicon solar cells

Y Zhang, B Cai, B Jia - Nanomaterials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Plasmonic metal nanoparticles supporting localized surface plasmon resonances have
attracted a great deal of interest in boosting the light absorption in solar cells. Among the …

Tandem organic solar cells containing plasmonic nanospheres and nanostars for enhancement in short circuit current density

K Kumar, A Das, UK Kumawat, A Dhawan - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose double junction tandem organic solar cells with PTB7: PC_70BM
and PDPPSDTPS: PC_60BM as the polymeric active materials to cover the wide solar …

Pervasive Ohmic contacts of monolayer 4-hT2 graphdiyne transistors

MM Dong, GP Zhang, ZQ Wang, ZL Li, ML Wang… - …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Monolayer (ML) graphdiyne, a two-dimensional semiconductor with appropriate band gap
and high carrier mobility, is a promising candidate for channel material in field effect …

Surface roughness effect on characteristics of Si nanowire solar cell

AHK Mahmoud, FMH Korany… - … of Photonics for …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The characteristics of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with surface roughness are reported and
analyzed for solar cell (SC) applications. The SiNWs are fabricated using a metal-assisted …

Fabry–Perot cavity enhanced three-photon luminescence of atomically thin platinum diselenide

J Han, Y Wang, J He, H Lu, X Li, M Gu, Y Zhang - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), exhibit
intriguing physical properties that lead to both fundamental research and technology …

Electrical characteristics of modified truncated cone nanowire for efficient light trapping

M Hussein, AHK Mahmoud, H Abdelhamid… - Photonics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel design of truncated cone nanowires (NWs) solar cell (SC) with air gap
is studied and analyzed. The optical and electrical characterizations are obtained using …

Light harvesting enhancement using metal nanoparticles

MT Yaseen - Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Metal nanoparticles are very important for their optical properties when they interact with
light. Metal nanoparticles have the ability to confine the collective oscillation of electrons …