Recent Progress in Printed Photonic Devices: A Brief Review of Materials, Devices, and Applications

AM Al-Amri - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Printing electronics incorporates several significant technologies, such as semiconductor
devices produced by various printing techniques on flexible substrates. With the growing …

[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacturing of high aspect-ratio structures with self-focusing photopolymerization

M Yang, K Kowsari, NO Myrie… - Light: Advanced …, 2022 - light-am.com
Photocrosslinkable polymers have been exploited to attain impressive advantages in
printing freestanding, micrometer-scale, mechanically compliant features. However, a more …

Organic solar cells based on cellulose nanopaper from agroforestry residues with an efficiency of over 16% and effectively wide-angle light capturing

J Wu, X Che, HC Hu, H Xu, B Li, Y Liu, J Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose nanopaper (CNP) was successfully demonstrated for enhanced efficiency and
effective wide-angle light capturing in organic solar cells (OSCs). The highest power …

Fluorescent Waveguide Lattices for Enhanced Light Harvesting and Solar Cell Performance

N Ding, ID Hosein - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present the properties and performance of fluorescent waveguide lattices as coatings for
solar cells, designed to address the significant mismatch between the solar cell's spectral …

Microfiber optic arrays as top coatings for front-contact solar cells toward mitigation of shading loss

FH Chen, S Biria, H Li, ID Hosein - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Microfiber optic array structures are fabricated and employed as an optical structure
overlaying a front-contact silicon solar cell. The arrays are synthesized through light-induced …

Characterization of Optical, Thermal, and Viscoelastic Properties of Pollenkitt in Angiosperm Pollen Using In-Line Digital Holographic Microscopy

S Rawat, J Trius Béjar, A Wang - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Pollen grains are remarkable material composites, with various organelles in their fragile
interior protected by a strong shell made of sporopollenin. The outermost layer of …

Observation of intensity dependent phase-separation in photoreactive monomer–nanoparticle formulations under non-uniform visible light irradiation

S Pathreeker, FH Chen, S Biria, ID Hosein - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report observations of photopolymerization driven phase-separation in a mixture of a
photo-reactive monomer and inorganic nanoparticles. The mixture is irradiated with visible …

Multidirectional Polymer Waveguide Lattices for Enhanced Ultrawide-Angle Light Capture in Silicon Solar Cells

N Ding, ID Hosein - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and characterization of a polymer thin-film structure consisting of two
intersecting broadband optical waveguide lattices, and its performance in wide-angle optical …

Determining the Local Refractive Index of Single Particles by Optical Imaging Technique

X Zhang, J Gao, X Wang, S Wang, B Jiang… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The refractive index points to the interplay between light and objects, which is rarely studied
down to micronano scale. Herein, we demonstrated a conventional bright-field imaging …

Performance of nanoparticle-enhanced thin-film solar cell with near-perfect absorption

C Deng, J Zhu, Y Huang - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes a thin-film solar cell composed of periodic plasmonic titanium
nanoparticles (Ti NPs) and indium phosphide (InP) thin films. By adjusting the size and …