Photovoltaic (PV) technologies have achieved commercial acceptance, technological
maturity and foresee a leading role in the current energy transition to combat the adverse …

The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

In this study, we enlighten about the field effect transistors (FET) and their technologies. As
far as very large integration is concerned, researchers are continuously focusing on scaling …

Investigations of organic–inorganic metal halide perovskite materials have attracted
extensive attention due to their excellent properties including bandgap tunability, long …

As a widely used semiconductor material, silicon has been extensively used in many areas,
such as photodiode, photodetector, and photovoltaic devices. However, the high surface …

To guide the design of plasmonic solar cells, theoretical investigation of core (metal)-shell
(dielectric) nanoparticles for light absorption enhancement in thin film Si solar cells is …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have attracted significant attention as promising
solar energy conversion devices for building integrated photovoltaic (PV) systems due to …

Present day nanowire solar cells have reached an efficiency of 17.8%. Nanophotonic
engineering by nanowire tapering allows for high solar light absorption. In combination with …

In this study, a novel metamaterial absorber (MA) is designed and numerically demonstrated
for solar energy harvesting. The structure is composed of three layers with different …

This paper summarizes some of the essential aspects for the fabrication of functional
devices from bottom-up silicon nanowires. In a first part, the different ways of exploiting …