Energy harvested directly from sunlight offers a desirable approach toward fulfilling, with
minimal environmental impact, the need for clean energy. Solar energy is a decentralized …

Because of its high energy capacity and environmental friendliness, hydrogen has been
identified as a potential energy carrier in many low greenhouse gas (GHG) energy …

The increasing human need for clean and renewable energy has stimulated research in
artificial photosynthesis, and in particular water photoelectrolysis as a pathway to hydrogen …

Thin-film structures can reduce the cost of solar power by using inexpensive substrates and
a lower quantity and quality of semiconductor material. However, the resulting short optical …

Solar cells are attractive candidates for clean and renewable power,; with miniaturization,
they might also serve as integrated power sources for nanoelectronic systems. The use of …

At present, solar energy conversion technologies face cost and scalability hurdles in the
technologies required for a complete energy system. To provide a truly widespread primary …

To address the challenge in sustainable global development, considerable effort has been
made to produce fuels from renewable resources with photocatalysts and …

High-performance photovoltaic cells use semiconductors to convert sunlight into clean
electrical power, and transparent dielectrics or conductive oxides as antireflection coatings …

Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …