Silicon solar cells: toward the efficiency limits

LC Andreani, A Bozzola, P Kowalczewski… - … in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy starts to give an appreciable contribution to
power generation in many countries, with more than 90% of the global PV market relying on …

Nanostructures for light trap** 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 …

Efficient solar-driven water splitting by nanocone BiVO4-perovskite tandem cells

Y Qiu, W Liu, W Chen, W Chen, G Zhou, PC Hsu… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has been widely regarded as a promising photoanode material
for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting because of its low cost, its high stability …

Photon-trap** microstructures enable high-speed high-efficiency silicon photodiodes

Y Gao, H Cansizoglu, KG Polat, S Ghandiparsi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-speed, high-efficiency photodetectors play an important role in optical communication
links that are increasingly being used in data centres to handle higher volumes of data traffic …

Photonics for photovoltaics: Advances and opportunities

EC Garnett, B Ehrler, A Polman, E Alarcon-Llado - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic systems have reached impressive efficiencies, with records in the range of 20–
30% for single-junction cells based on many different materials, yet the fundamental …

Light management in plastic–paper hybrid substrate towards high-performance optoelectronics

Y Yao, W Qarony, AS Mayet… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The photosensitivity of silicon is inherently very low in the visible electromagnetic spectrum,
and it drops rapidly beyond 800 nm in near-infrared wavelengths. We have experimentally …

Achieving an accurate surface profile of a photonic crystal for near-unity solar absorption in a super thin-film architecture

P Kuang, S Eyderman, ML Hsieh, A Post, S John… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this work, a teepee-like photonic crystal (PC) structure on crystalline silicon (c-Si) is
experimentally demonstrated, which fulfills two critical criteria in solar energy harvesting by …

Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices

SY Wang, SP Wang, MS Islam - US Patent 10,446,700, 2019 - Google Patents
US10446700B2 - Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices - Google
Patents US10446700B2 - Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices …

Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices

SY Wang, SP Wang, MS Islam - US Patent 10,468,543, 2019 - Google Patents
H01L31/00—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic
radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the …