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  04 January 2024 | Open Access

  Infrared-reflective ultrathin-metal-film-based transparent electrode with ultralow optical loss for high efficiency in solar cells

  • George Perrakis
  • , Anna C. Tasolamprou
  •  & Maria Kafesaki

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  30 October 2023 | Open Access

  Morphological investigation and 3D simulation of plasmonic nanostructures to improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells

  • Mohammad Hosein Mohammadi
  • , Mehdi Eskandari
  •  & Davood Fathi

• Article
  23 May 2023 | Open Access

  Solar ultraviolet light collector for germicidal irradiation on the moon

  • Matteo Lombini
  • , Laura Schreiber
  •  & Cesira Pasquarella

• Article
  03 April 2023 | Open Access

  Ultra-thin Ag/Si heterojunction hot-carrier photovoltaic conversion Schottky devices for harvesting solar energy at wavelength above 1.1 µm

  • Zih-Chun Su
  • , Chung-Han Chang
  •  & Ching-Fuh Lin

• Article
  30 March 2023 | Open Access

  Hybrid high-concentration photovoltaic system designed for different weather conditions

  • Chi Sun
  • , Chi-Shou Wu
  •  & Ching-Cherng Sun

• Article
  04 February 2023 | Open Access

  A numerical study on the relationship between the doping and performance in P3HT:PCBM organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

  • Hossein Movla
  • , Afshin Shahalizad
  •  & Asghar Asgari

• Article
  12 November 2022 | Open Access

  Enhancement of color and photovoltaic performance of semi-transparent organic solar cell via fine-tuned 1D photonic crystal

  • Çağlar Çetinkaya
  • , Erman Çokduygulular
  •  & Süleyman Özçelik

• Article
  12 October 2022 | Open Access

  Multi-octave metasurface-based refractory superabsorber enhanced by a tapered unit-cell structure

  • Mojtaba Karimi Habil
  • , Maryam Ghahremani
  •  & Carlos J. Zapata–Rodríguez

• Article
  04 July 2022 | Open Access

  Highly improved light harvesting and photovoltaic performance in CdTe solar cell with functional designed 1D-photonic crystal via light management engineering

  • Çağlar Çetinkaya
  • , Erman Çokduygulular
  •  & Süleyman Özçelik

• Article
  17 June 2022 | Open Access

  Ultra-broadband, wide-angle plus-shape slotted metamaterial solar absorber design with absorption forecasting using machine learning

  • Shobhit K. Patel
  • , Juveriya Parmar
  •  & Vijay Katkar

• Article
  12 April 2022 | Open Access

  Design of an ultra-wideband omnidirectional and polarization insensitive flower petal antenna for potential ambient electromagnetic energy harvesting applications

  • Wei-Chih Wang
  •  & Prabir Garu

• Article
  16 February 2022 | Open Access

  Graphene-based metasurface solar absorber design with absorption prediction using machine learning

  • Juveriya Parmar
  • , Shobhit K. Patel
  •  & Vijay Katkar

• Article
  05 October 2021 | Open Access

  Impact of hybrid plasmonic nanoparticles on the charge carrier mobility of P3HT:PCBM polymer solar cells

  • MirKazem Omrani
  • , Hamidreza Fallah
  •  & Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi

• Article
  22 June 2021 | Open Access

  Design and fabrication of a semi-transparent solar cell considering the effect of the layer thickness of MoO₃/Ag/MoO₃ transparent top contact on optical and electrical properties

  • Çağlar Çetinkaya
  • , Erman Çokduygulular
  •  & Süleyman Özçelik

• Article
  08 April 2021 | Open Access

  Multi-dimensional optimization of In_0.53Ga_0.47As thermophotovoltaic cell using real coded genetic algorithm

  • Mansur Mohammed Ali Gamel
  • , Pin Jern Ker
  •  & M. Z. Jamaludin

• Article
  02 March 2021 | Open Access

  A common optical approach to thickness optimization in polymer and perovskite solar cells

  • Olga D. Iakobson
  • , Oxana L. Gribkova
  •  & Jean-Michel Nunzi

• Article
  08 January 2021 | Open Access

  Highly efficient self-powered perovskite photodiode with an electron-blocking hole-transport NiO_x layer

  • Amir Muhammad Afzal
  • , In-Gon Bae
  •  & Byoungchoo Park

• Article
  14 December 2020 | Open Access

  Influence of an aluminium concentrator corrosion on the output characteristic of a photovoltaic system

  • Frederico Mota
  • , João Paulo Neto Torres
  •  & Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas

• Article
  29 October 2020 | Open Access

  Numerical study of a highly efficient light trapping nanostructure of perovskite solar cell on a textured silicon substrate

  • Alireza Tooghi
  • , Davood Fathi
  •  & Mehdi Eskandari

• Article
  27 July 2020 | Open Access

  Embossed Mie resonator arrays composed of compacted TiO₂ nanoparticles for broadband anti-reflection in solar cells

  • Dennis Visser
  • , Ding Yuan Chen
  •  & Srinivasan Anand

• Article
  26 May 2020 | Open Access

  Multi-element lenslet array for efficient solar collection at extreme angles of incidence

  • Rakan E. Alsaigh
  • , Ralf Bauer
  •  & Martin P. J. Lavery

• Article
  08 May 2020 | Open Access

  Enabling selective absorption in perovskite solar cells for refractometric sensing of gases

  • Mahmoud H. Elshorbagy
  • , Alexander Cuadrado
  •  & Javier Alda

• Article
  27 September 2019 | Open Access

  Design and Demonstration of High-Efficiency Quantum Well Solar Cells Employing Thin Strained Superlattices

  • Roger E. Welser
  • , Stephen J. Polly
  •  & Seth M. Hubbard

• Article
  13 August 2019 | Open Access

  A Spectrally Tunable Dielectric Subwavelength Grating based Broadband Planar Light Concentrator

  • Ameen Elikkottil
  • , Mohammed H. Tahersima
  •  & Bala Pesala

• Article
  01 July 2019 | Open Access

  High Power UV-Light Irradiation as a New Method for Defect Passivation in Degraded Perovskite Solar Cells to Recover and Enhance the Performance

  • Farzaneh Arabpour Roghabadi
  • , Nasibeh Mansour Rezaei Fumani
  •  & Seyed Mojtaba Sadrameli

• Article
  08 October 2018 | Open Access

  Solution processes for ultrabroadband and omnidirectional graded-index glass lenses with near-zero reflectivity in high concentration photovoltaics

  • Junwen He
  • , Yuan Yao
  •  & John A. Rogers

• Article
  05 September 2018 | Open Access

  Mitigation of hysteresis due to a pseudo-photochromic effect in thermochromic smart window coatings

  • Christian Sol
  • , Johannes Schläfer
  •  & Ioannis Papakonstantinou

• Article
  03 August 2018 | Open Access

  Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials

  • Lin Zhu
  • , Hidefumi Akiyama
  •  & Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

• Article
  15 June 2018 | Open Access

  Large-Area, Cost-Effective, Ultra-Broadband Perfect Absorber Utilizing Manganese in Metal-Insulator-Metal Structure

  • Majid Aalizadeh
  • , Amin Khavasi
  •  & Ekmel Ozbay

• Article
  31 January 2018 | Open Access

  Black silicon significantly enhances phosphorus diffusion gettering

  • Toni P. Pasanen
  • , Hannu S. Laine
  •  & Hele Savin

• Article
  12 December 2017 | Open Access

  Broadband light trapping strategies for quantum-dot photovoltaic cells (>10%) and their issues with the measurement of photovoltaic characteristics

  • Changsoon Cho
  • , Jung Hoon Song
  •  & Jung-Yong Lee

• Article
  25 October 2017 | Open Access

  Transparent and ‘opaque’ conducting electrodes for ultra-thin highly-efficient near-field thermophotovoltaic cells

  • Aristeidis Karalis
  •  & J. D. Joannopoulos

• Article
  13 September 2017 | Open Access

  Detailed Balance Limit of Efficiency of Broadband-Pumped Lasers

  • Sergey Nechayev
  •  & Carmel Rotschild

• Article
  06 September 2017 | Open Access

  Highly Efficient Colored Perovskite Solar Cells Integrated with Ultrathin Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanoresonators

  • Kyu-Tae Lee
  • , Ji-Yun Jang
  •  & Hui Joon Park

• Article
  29 August 2017 | Open Access

  Multiple electron transporting layers and their excellent properties based on organic solar cell

  • Ziyan Yang
  • , Ting Zhang
  •  & Song Chen

• Article
  13 July 2017 | Open Access

  Semiconductor-based Multilayer Selective Solar Absorber for Unconcentrated Solar Thermal Energy Conversion

  • Nathan H. Thomas
  • , Zhen Chen
  •  & Austin J. Minnich

• Article
  27 June 2017 | Open Access

  Dielectric Nanorod Scattering and its Influence on Material Interfaces

  • Gauri M. Mangalgiri
  • , Phillip Manley
  •  & Martina Schmid

• Article
  01 June 2017 | Open Access

  Smooth anti-reflective three-dimensional textures for liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass

  • David Eisenhauer
  • , Grit Köppel
  •  & Christiane Becker

• Article
  25 April 2017 | Open Access

  Resonant Raman scattering based approaches for the quantitative assessment of nanometric ZnMgO layers in high efficiency chalcogenide solar cells

  • Maxim Guc
  • , Dimitrios Hariskos
  •  & Victor Izquierdo-Roca

• Article
  20 April 2017 | Open Access

  An Analytic Approach for Optimal Geometrical Design of GaAs Nanowires for Maximal Light Harvesting in Photovoltaic Cells

  • Dan Wu
  • , Xiaohong Tang
  •  & Xianqiang Li

• Article
  07 April 2017 | Open Access

  Poynting vector analysis for wireless power transfer between magnetically coupled coils with different loads

  • Yunsheng Guo
  • , Jiansheng Li
  •  & Hongya Wu

• Article
  31 March 2017 | Open Access

  Bioinspired fractal electrodes for solar energy storages

  • Litty V. Thekkekara
  •  & Min Gu

• Article
  20 March 2017 | Open Access

  Optical determination of Shockley-Read-Hall and interface recombination currents in hybrid perovskites

  • Valerio Sarritzu
  • , Nicola Sestu
  •  & Giovanni Bongiovanni

• Article
  16 December 2016 | Open Access

  Enhanced Conversion Efficiency of III–V Triple-junction Solar Cells with Graphene Quantum Dots

  • Tzu-Neng Lin
  • , Svette Reina Merden S. Santiago
  •  & Wu-Ching Chou

• Article
  15 December 2016 | Open Access

  Simultaneous observation of free and defect-bound excitons in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ using four-wave mixing spectroscopy

  • Samuel A. March
  • , Charlotte Clegg
  •  & Kimberley C. Hall

• Article
  07 December 2016 | Open Access

  Nano-cones for broadband light coupling to high index substrates

  • J. Buencuerpo
  • , L. Torné
  •  & J. M. Ripalda

• Article
  05 October 2016 | Open Access

  Large Absorption Enhancement in Ultrathin Solar Cells Patterned by Metallic Nanocavity Arrays

  • Wei Wang
  • , Jiasen Zhang
  •  & Guogang Qin

• Article
  01 September 2016 | Open Access

  New Insight into the Angle Insensitivity of Ultrathin Planar Optical Absorbers for Broadband Solar Energy Harvesting

  • Dong Liu
  • , Haitong Yu
  •  & Yimin Xuan

• Article
  08 August 2016 | Open Access

  Unified Electromagnetic-Electronic Design of Light Trapping Silicon Solar Cells

  • Javaneh Boroumand
  • , Sonali Das
  •  & Debashis Chanda

• Article
  01 July 2016 | Open Access

  ‘Squeezing’ near-field thermal emission for ultra-efficient high-power thermophotovoltaic conversion

  • Aristeidis Karalis
  •  & J. D. Joannopoulos