In-depth assessments of cutting-edge solar cell technologies, emerging materials, loss
mechanisms, and performance enhancement techniques are presented in this article. The …

Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

Silicon dominates the photovoltaic industry but the conversion efficiency of silicon single-
junction solar cells is intrinsically constrained to 29.4%, and practically limited to around …

Crystalline silicon comprises 90% of the global photovoltaics (PV) market and has sustained
a nearly 30% cumulative annual growth rate, yet comprises less than 2% of electricity …

Herein, we introduce the value of efficiency (VOE)—a metric defining the allowable cost for
innovation by analyzing the co-dependence of levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) on …

Remarkable progress has been made in the field of one-dimensional semiconductor
nanostructures for electronic and photonic devices. Group-IV semiconductors and their …

We report on the fabrication of two-dimensional periodic photonic nanostructures by
nanoimprint lithography and dry etching and their integration into a 1-μm-thin mono …

In this paper we introduce the three-dimensional formulation of the OPTOS formalism, a
matrix-based method that allows for the efficient simulation of non-coherent light …

An effective rigorous 3‐D optical modeling of thin‐film silicon solar cells based on finite
element method (FEM) is presented. The simulation of a flat single junction thin‐film silicon …

We demonstrate diffractive rear side gratings to enhance the near infrared light trap** and
thus the quantum efficiency of wafer based crystalline silicon solar cells. Binary crossed …