Perovskite–silicon tandem solar modules with optimised light harvesting

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1489-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Jaysankar ◽  
Miha Filipič ◽  
Bartosz Zielinski ◽  
Raphael Schmager ◽  
Wenya Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Light Management

Demonstration of efficient, large-area scalable perovskite–silicon tandem solar modules with optimised light management.

scholarly journals Periodic Nanophotonic Structures-Based Light Management for Solar Energy Harvesting

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Deep Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Cells ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Solar Energy Harvesting ◽  
Nanophotonic Structures

Solar energy has always been an obvious choice for solving the energy issues for the humans for centuries. The two most popular choices, out of many, to harness this infinite source of energy are: solar cells and photoelectrochemical cells. Although both these techniques are quite attractive, they have inherent limitations for tapping all of the incident photons. Maximizing the absorption of incident photons to produce maximum possible electrical output is always the main impetus for the researchers working to streamline these two techniques and making them compatible with existing sources of electrical energy. It has been well established that the light trapping in the solar cells and photoelectrochemical cells can play a vital role in improving their performance. To design light harvesting structures for both these applications, periodic nanophotonic structures have demonstrated stupendous results and shown that they have the real potential to enhance their performance. The chapter, in this regard, presents and reviews the current and historical aspects of the light harvesting structures for these two interesting applications and also discusses about the future of the research to further the performance of these large-area solar-to-electrical conversion transducers.

Bio-inspired self-assembly of large area 3D Ag@SiO2 plasmonic nanostructures with tunable broadband light harvesting

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 101238
Author(s):  
Pengfei Cheng ◽  
Mario Ziegler ◽  
Valentin Ripka ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Hongguang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Plasmonic Nanostructures ◽  
Large Area

scholarly journals Converting plasmonic light scattering to confined light absorption and creating plexcitons by coupling a gold nano-pyramid array onto a silica–gold film

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 516-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Zheng ◽  
Sujan Kasani ◽  
Nianqiang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Light Scattering ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Gold Film ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Light Management

This report presents a facile microfabrication-compatible approach to fabricate a large area of plasmonic nano-pyramid array-based antennas and demonstrates effective light management by tailoring the architecture.

scholarly journals Light Management in Single Rectangular Silicon Nanowires for Photovoltaic Applications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Silicon Nanowires ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Rectangular Cross Section ◽  
Light Illumination ◽  
Vertical Side ◽  
Photovoltaic Applications ◽  
Light Management ◽  
Horizontal Side

Light management in single nanowires (NWs) is of great importance for photovoltaic applications. However, square NWs (SNWs) can limit their light-trapping ability due to high geometrical symmetry. In this work, we present a detailed study of light management in single silicon NWs with a rectangular cross-section (RNWs). We demonstrate that the RNWs exhibit significantly enhanced light-harvesting compared with the SNWs, which can be attributed to the symmetry-broken structure that can orthogonalize the direction of light illumination and the leaky mode resonances (LMRs). That is, the rectangular cross-section can simultaneously increase the light path length by increasing the vertical side and reshape the LMR modes by decreasing the horizontal side. We found that the light absorption can be engineered via tuning the horizontal and vertical sides, the photocurrent is significantly enhanced by 276.5% or 82.9% in comparison with that of the SNWs with the same side length as the horizontal side of 100 nm or the vertical side of 1000 nm, respectively. This work advances our understanding of how to improve light-harvesting based on the symmetry breaking from the SNWs to RNWs and provides an effective way for designing high-efficiency single NW photovoltaic devices.

Light management in large area thin-film silicon solar modules

2015 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. Losio ◽  
O. Caglar ◽  
J.S. Cashmore ◽  
J.E. Hötzel ◽  
S. Ristau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Light Management

Engineering Chemically Exfoliated Large-Area Two-Dimensional MoS2Nanolayers with Porphyrins for Improved Light Harvesting

ChemPhysChem ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 2854-2862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanyu Zhang ◽  
Jungwook Choi ◽  
Arjun Ramani ◽  
Damien Voiry ◽  
Sean N. Natoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Large Area

Fabrication of highly emissive and highly stable perovskite nanocrystal-polymer slabs for luminescent solar concentrators

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 4872-4880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Tong ◽  
Jingwei Luo ◽  
Li Shi ◽  
Jiajing Wu ◽  
Lingyun Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Composites ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Light Management

The high-performance light-management slabs made of low-cost, highly emissive, and ultra-stable nanocrystal (NC)-polymer composites are desirable for application in large-area luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs).

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