Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy starts to give an appreciable contribution to
power generation in many countries, with more than 90% of the global PV market relying on …

Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

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 …

Thin film solar cells are one of the important candidates utilized to reduce the cost of
photovoltaic production by minimizing the usage of active materials. However, low light …

Solar cell efficiency improvement has been one of the major concerns to realize ultimately
the cost effective efficient solar cells. Among various ways to improve solar cell efficiency …

Enhancement of the electromagnetic properties of metallic nanostructures constitute an
extensive research field related to plasmonics. The latter term is derived from plasmons …

The concurrent development of high-performance materials, new device and system
architectures, and nanofabrication processes has driven widespread research and …

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 …

It is currently possible to fabricate crystalline silicon solar cells with the absorber thickness
ranging from a few hundreds of micrometres (conventional wafer-based cells) to devices as …

Efficient photon management schemes are crucial for improving the energy conversion
efficiency of photovoltaic devices; they can lead potentially to reduced material usage and …