Flexible thin film solar cells such as CIGS, CdTe, and a-Si: H have received worldwide
attention. Until now, Si solar cells dominate the photovoltaic market. Its production cost is a …

The sharp increase of research passion in the new-generation solar cells in recent years
has resulted in a new trend in combining multiple types of energy devices in a single device …

Nanostructured metal back reflectors (BRs) are playing an important role in thin-film solar
cells, which facilitates an increased optical path length within a relatively thin absorbing …

Tandem solar cells (TSC) is the most promising photovoltaic technology, as it efficiently
overcomes the thermalization and nonabsorption losses. In this context, thin‐film/colloidal …

High power-to-weight ratio (PTWR) is an important figure-of-merit for high performance
flexible/portable solar cells. Marrying advanced tandem junction design with three …

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhancement in photocatalyst and photovoltaics has
been widely studied and different enhancement mechanisms have been established based …

The mechanical flexibility of substrates and controllable nanostructures are two major
considerations in designing high‐performance, flexible thin‐film solar cells. In this work, we …

A flexible self-charged power panel is integrally designed and fabricated to simultaneously
harvest solar and mechanical energy and convert and store in electric energy. The flexible …

To date, technical development has boosted the efficiencies of energy converting/storing
devices with conventional planar architectures to be close to the corresponding theoretical …

Plastic substrates possess conspicuous advantages for flexible thin film solar cell
applications due to their superior flexibility and light weight characteristics. However, there …