After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

An artificial photosynthetic system that directly produces fuels from sunlight could provide an
approach to scalable energy storage and a technology for the carbon-neutral production of …

Silicon nanowire and nanopore arrays promise to reduce manufacturing costs and increase
the power conversion efficiency of photovoltaic devices. So far, however, photovoltaic cells …

Arrays of B-doped p-Si microwires, diffusion-doped with P to form a radial n+ emitter and
subsequently coated with a 1.5-nm-thick discontinuous film of evaporated Pt, were used as …

The dark electrocatalytic and light photocathodic hydrogen evolution properties of Ni, Ni–Mo
alloys, and Pt on Si electrodes have been measured, to assess the viability of earth …

This Perspective reviews stretchable, elastic materials and devices of use for the conversion
of solar energy. Stretchable and extremely flexible photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical …

Arrays of III–V direct-bandgap semiconductor nanopillars represent promising photovoltaic
candidates due to their inherent high optical absorption coefficients and minimized reflection …

Because of unique structural, optical, and electrical properties, solar cells based on
semiconductor nanowires are a rapidly evolving scientific enterprise. Various approaches …

Subwavelength diameter semiconductor nanowires can support optical resonances with
anomalously large absorption cross sections, and thus tailoring these resonances to specific …

Abstract The Shockley-Queisser limit describes the maximum solar energy conversion
efficiency achievable for a particular material and is the standard by which new photovoltaic …