Indoor Photovoltaics for the Internet-of-Things–A Comparison of State-of-the-Art Devices from Different Photovoltaic Technologies

D Müller, E Jiang, P Rivas-Lazaro… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaics (PV) is an attractive candidate for powering the rapidly growing market of
smart devices in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) such as sensors, actuators, and wearables …

High-performance carbon black-based counter electrodes for copper (I)/(II)-mediated dye-sensitized solar cells

S Venkatesan, IT Chuang, H Teng… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Carbon black (CB) is a readily available, inexpensive carbonaceous material with good
catalytic activity, which has been utilized alone or in composites to fabricate highly efficient …

From Rigid to Flexible: Progress, Challenges and Prospects of Thin c‐Si Solar Energy Devices

B Gupta, KH Min, Y Lee, J Tournet… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing adoption of solar energy as a renewable power source marks a significant
shift toward clean, sustainable alternatives to conventional energy forms. A notable …

Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells with Efficiency over 36% under Ambient Light Achieved by Cosensitized Tandem Structure

S Venkatesan, TH Hsu, H Teng, YL Lee - Solar RRL, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cosensitization process is an effective way to improve the performance of dye‐
sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), especially for tandem cells that employ the complementary …

Recent developments in non-fullerene-acceptor-based indoor organic solar cells

S Biswas, Y Lee, H Choi, H Kim - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
For over a decade, donor-acceptor blends composed of organic donors and fullerene
acceptors dominated indoor organic solar cells (IOSCs). Numerous researchers have …

Enhance the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells with effective compact layers and direct contact cell structure

S Venkatesan, YC Chang, H Teng, YL Lee - Journal of Power Sources, 2025 - Elsevier
Compact layers (CLs) characterized by dense structures play a crucial role in enhancing the
power conversion efficiency (PCE) of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Previous studies …

Ambient light harvesting with high-performance printable electrolyte in direct contact structured dye-sensitized solar cells

YH Lee, S Venkatesan, XW Wong, ZQ Lim… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
For the first time, printable polymer gel electrolytes (PGEs) of the copper-redox system were
developed for fabricating quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (QS-DSSCs) using a …

[HTML][HTML] Module-level direct coupling in PV-battery power unit under realistic irradiance and load

U Chibuko, T Merdzhanova, D Weigand, F Ezema… - Solar energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A photovoltaic (PV) module, battery and consumer or load is usually tied together by a
complex power electronics, including maximum power point tracking (MPPT) device for …

Mg2Si is the new black: Introducing a black silicide with> 95% average absorption at 200–1800 nm wavelengths

A Shevlyagin, V Il'yaschenko, A Kuchmizhak… - Applied surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Textured silicon surface structures, in particular black silicon (b-Si), open up possibilities for
Si-based solar cells and photodetectors to be extremely thin and highly sensitive owing to …

Semimetal hR6-CaSi2 thin film: A transparent contact for Si optoelectronics

AV Shevlyagin, NG Galkin, KN Galkin… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transparent conducting materials (TCMs) provide low cost and effective solution for the
modern optoelectronics. However, simultaneous high electrical conductivity and optical …