Abstract III-V nanowire (NW) solar cells (SCs) promise a comparable efficiency to that of their
planar counterparts with additional advantage of reduced material consumption to cut the …

Schottky junction photovoltaic devices were successfully assembled by using nanowire
shaped graphene sheets grown on-site onto nano-imprint lithography silicon nanowires …

Few-layer graphene/silicon quantum dots/silicon (FLG/SiQDs/Si) heterojunction solar cells
consisting of a layer of SiQDs sandwiched between FLG and p-or n-type Si is examined by a …

Numerical simulations based on solving the Maxwell equations provide a robust and
efficient approach to obtaining optical properties of plasmonic metal nanoparticles (NPs), but …

For the first time, the formalism of intrinsic loss processes such as below-band gap,
thermalisation, angle mismatch, Carnot and emission loss in the intermediate band solar …

MoO x quantum dots were inserted between the Si nanowires (SiNWs) and Cu contacts to
form the MoO x/SiNW heterojunctions via the low-temperature solution process. The …

Intrinsic losses, including below-band gap, thermalization, mismatch angle, Carnot, and
emission, are investigated in a structure of quantum dot intermediate band solar cells (QD …

In this paper, the effect of plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs) embedded in GaAs is
investigated via the calculation of scattering and absorption cross sections and the …

Graphene, along with its derivatives, is pioneered among the family of two-dimensional
nanomaterials, which is composed of an atomic crystalline single layer with outstanding and …

Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) has been used as graphene synthesis template as the texture
substrate enhance light harvesting in device application comparing to planar substrate. In …