Material challenges for solar cells in the twenty-first century: directions in emerging technologies

S Almosni, A Delamarre, Z Jehl, D Suchet… - … and Technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Photovoltaic generation has stepped up within the last decade from outsider status to one of
the important contributors of the ongoing energy transition, with about 1.7% of world …

Colloidal quantum dots for optoelectronics

AP Litvin, IV Martynenko, F Purcell-Milton… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This review is focused on new concepts and recent progress in the development of three
major quantum dot (QD) based optoelectronic devices: photovoltaic cells, photodetectors …

Colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics: Current progress and path to gigawatt scale enabled by smart manufacturing

AR Kirmani, JM Luther, M Abolhasani… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have lately been pursued with intense vigor for optoelectronic
applications such as photovoltaics (PV), flexible electronics, displays, mid-infrared …

Photoexcited carrier dynamics in colloidal quantum dot solar cells: insights into individual quantum dots, quantum dot solid films and devices

Y Zhang, G Wu, F Liu, C Ding, Z Zou… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) record of colloidal quantum dot solar cells
(QDSCs) has considerably improved from below 4% to 16.6% in the last few years …

ZnO nanowires for solar cells: A comprehensive review

V Consonni, J Briscoe, E Kärber, X Li… - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As an abundant and non-toxic wide band gap semiconductor with a high electron mobility,
ZnO in the form of nanowires (NWs) has emerged as an important electron transporting …

Recent developments in metal chalcogenides based quantum dot sensitized solar cells

R Kottayi, DK Maurya, R Sittaramane… - ES Energy & …, 2022 - espublisher.com
Recent advance in nanotechnology leads to develop a variety of metal chalcogenide
quantum dots (QDs) such as binary metal chalcogenides QDs and alloyed QDs. The …

Mn-doped CdS quantum dots as sensitizers in solar cells

A Ganguly, SS Nath - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2020 - Elsevier
CdS and different concentrations of Mn+ 2 doped CdS quantum dots are synthesized via
simple chemical method on poly-vinyl alcohol matrix. The doped and undoped CdS …

Recent progress on quantum dot solar cells: a review

T Sogabe, Q Shen… - Journal of Photonics for …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have a potential to increase the power conversion
efficiency in photovoltaic operation because of the enhancement of photoexcitation. Recent …

Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Bi2S3 and Sb2S3 Nanoparticles and Their Photoelectrochemical Properties

MP Motaung, DC Onwudiwe, W Lei - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bi2S3 and Sb2S3 nanoparticles were prepared by microwave irradiation of single-source
precursor complexes in the presence of ethylene glycol as a coordinating solvent. The as …

Eco-Friendly AgBiS2 Nanocrystal/ZnO Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Enhanced Carrier Collection Efficiency

Y **ao, H Wang, F Awai, N Shibayama… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
AgBiS2 nanocrystals (NCs) are nontoxic, lead-free, and near-infrared absorbing materials.
Eco-friendly solar cells were constructed using interdigitated layers of ZnO nanowires (NWs) …