Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are
reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling factor for the …

Bifacial solar photovoltaics (PV) is a promising mature technology that increases the
production of electricity per square meter of PV module through the use of light absorption …

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies for solar energy conversion represent promising routes to
green and renewable energy generation. Despite relevant PV technologies being available …

The spectral mismatch between solar cells and incident radiation is a fundamental factor
limiting their efficiencies. There exist materials and luminescent processes which can modify …

Upconversion, the conversion of photons from lower to higher energies, is a process that
promises applications ranging from high-efficiency photovoltaic and photocatalytic cells to …

Spectral conversion of sunlight is a promising route to reduce spectral mismatch losses that
are responsible for the major part of the efficiency losses in solar cells. Both upconversion …

Photovoltaic cells are able to convert sunlight into electricity, providing enough of the most
abundant and cleanest energy to cover our energy needs. However, the efficiency of current …

The possibility to tune chemical and physical properties in nanosized materials has a strong
impact on a variety of technologies, including photovoltaics. One of the prominent research …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices comprising a transparent matrix
embedding optically active centres that absorb the incident radiation, which is re-emitted at a …

Low-energy photons, which are not used by a solar cell, can be converted to higher-energy
photons by photon upconversion. The figure-of-merit of upconvertors, J UC, is given in mA …