Molecular study and analysis of organic compounds for high-performance solar cell applications by El Mhamedi Imane, El Malki Zakaria

“…These results underline the positive impact of PEDOT addition on photovoltaic conversion and its potential for organic solar cells. In conclusion, our results indicate that these compounds represent promising candidates for future applications.…”
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Retracted: Analysis of Pomegranate Dye Coated Titanium Nanotubes Anode for Solar Cell Application by Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Author Correction: Sublimed C60 for efficient and repeatable perovskite-based solar cells by Ahmed A. Said, Erkan Aydin, Esma Ugur, Zhaojian Xu, Caner Deger, Badri Vishal, Aleš Vlk, Pia Dally, Bumin K. Yildirim, Randi Azmi, Jiang Liu, Edward A. Jackson, Holly M. Johnson, Manting Gui, Henning Richter, Anil R. Pininti, Helen Bristow, Maxime Babics, Arsalan Razzaq, Suman Mandal, Thomas G. Allen, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Martin Ledinský, Ilhan Yavuz, Barry P. Rand, Stefaan De Wolf

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Strategic Review: The CZTS Thin-Film Using Tandem and Multi-Junction Solar Cell by Saif Adnan Muhamad, Methaq Hadi Lafta

Subjects: “…solar cells…”
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Low Cost Amorphous Silicon Intrinsic Layer for Thin-Film Tandem Solar Cells by Ching-In Wu, Shoou-Jinn Chang, Kin-Tak Lam, Shuguang Li, Sheng-Po Chang

“…Furthermore, it was found that we could significantly reduce the production cost of the a-Si/μc-Si tandem solar cells prepared on Gen 5 glass substrate by fine-tuning the process parameters.…”
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ITO-Free Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells Based on Silver Thin Film Electrodes by Zhizhe Wang, Chunfu Zhang, Dazheng Chen, Shi Tang, Jincheng Zhang, Li Sun, Ting Heng, Yue Hao

“…ITO-free semitransparent organic solar cells (OSCs) based on MoO3/Ag anodes with poly(3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester films as the active layer are investigated in this work. …”
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Simulation of Thin-Film Solar Cells with a CuInSe2 Chalcopyrite Structure by A. K. Esman, G. L. Zykov, V. A. Potachits, V. K. Kuleshov

Subjects: “…cuinse2 thin-film solar cell…”
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Progress in Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Cu2ZnSnS4 by Hongxia Wang

“…The research in thin film solar cells has been dominated by light absorber materials based on CdTe and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) in the last several decades. …”
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Theoretical Study on the Photoelectric Properties of a Class of Copolymers Based on Benzodithiophene for Solar Cells by Xiao-Hua Xie, Xin-Wei Zhao, Ming Li

“…Consequently, the four designed copolymers are promising candidates for polymer BHJ solar cells.…”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Optimal Gel Electrolyte Using the Taguchi Design Method by Jenn-Kai Tsai, Wen Dung Hsu, Tian-Chiuan Wu, Jia-Song Zhou, Ji-Lin Li, Jian-Hao Liao, Teen-Hang Meen

“…The Taguchi method was adopted to determine the optimal gel electrolyte used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Since electrolyte is a very important factor in fabrication of high performance and long-term stability DSSCs, to find the optimal composition of gel electrolyte is desired. …”
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Application of Diaminium Iodides in Binary Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Yanzhen Yang, Renjie Sun, Chengwu Shi, Yucheng Wu, Mei Xia

“…The result revealed that HEEDAI can suppress the recombination between I3- and the injected electrons in TiO2 conduction band and be used as the alternative of 4-tert-butylpyridine in the electrolyte of dye-sensitized solar cells. The electrolyte C, 0.15 mol⋅L−1 I2, HEEDAI and MPII with mass ratio of 1 : 4, gave the short-circuit photocurrent density of 9.36 mA⋅cm−2, open-circuit photovoltage of 0.67 V, fill factor of 0.52, and the corresponding photoelectric conversion efficiency of 3.24% at the illumination (air mass 1.5, 100 mW⋅cm−2, active area 0.25 cm2).…”
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Fabricating PCPDTBT/PC61BM organic solar cells using the PVD method by Or Gindi, Zeev Fradkin, Anat Itzhak, Sofiya Kolusheva, Peter Beker

“…A study conducted to investigate the fabrication of organic solar cells based on PC61BM:PCPDTBT using the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) method. …”
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Effect of Multilayers CdS Nanocrystalline Thin Films on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Abdullah A. Hussain, Haider Abdulelah, Ali H. Amteghy, Raed A. Dheyab, Ban Hamdan AlMulla

“…Due to relatively low price and nontoxicity of photovoltaic (PV) systems, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) recently gained a lot of attention in terms of improving their performance and longevity. …”
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A Suitable Polysulfide Electrolyte for CdSe Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells by H. K. Jun, M. A. Careem, A. K. Arof

“…A polysulfide liquid electrolyte is developed for the application in CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). A solvent consisting of ethanol and water in the ratio of 8 : 2 by volume has been found as the optimum solvent for preparing the liquid electrolytes. …”
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Efficiency Enhancement of Nanoporous Silicon/Polycrystalline-Silicon Solar Cells by Application of Trenched Electrodes by Kuen-Hsien Wu, Chia-Chun Tang

“…Trenched electrodes were proposed to enhance the short-circuit current and conversion efficiency of polycrystalline-silicon (poly-Si) solar cells with nanoporous silicon (NPS) surface layers. …”
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Carrier Formation Dynamics in Prototypical Organic Solar Cells as Investigated by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy by Yutaka Moritomo, Kouhei Yonezawa, Takeshi Yasuda

“…Subpicosecond transient absorption spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to clarify the exciton and carrier dynamics within the organic solar cells (OSCs). In this review article, we introduce a method to determine the absolute numbers of the excitons and carriers against delay time (t) only from the photoinduced absorption (PIA) and electrochemically induced absorption (EIA) spectra. …”
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Theoretical Study of Copper Complexes: Molecular Structure, Properties, and Its Application to Solar Cells by Jesus Baldenebro-Lopez, Norma Flores-Holguin, Jose Castorena-Gonzalez, Jorge Almaral-Sanchez, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…We present a theoretical investigation of copper complexes with potential applications as sensitizers for solar cells. The density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT were utilized, using the M06 hybrid meta-GGA functional with the LANL2DZ (D95V on first row) and DZVP basis sets. …”
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Theoretical Study of Proton Radiation Influence on the Performance of a Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell by Tchouadep Guy Serge, Zouma Bernard, Korgo Bruno, Soro Boubacar, Savadogo Mahamadi, Zoungrana Martial, Zerbo Issa

“…The aim of this work is to study the behaviour of a silicon solar cell under the irradiation of different fluences of high-energy proton radiation (10 MeV) and under constant multispectral illumination. …”
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Study of Ruthenium Complex Sensitizer and Gold Nanoparticles Doped Flexible Organic Solar Cells by Cheng-Chiang Chen, Lung-Chien Chen

“…This work presents a flexible organic solar cell with a structure for ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM+ruthenium complex sensitizer and Au nanoparticles on a flexible substrate. …”
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Effect of Hydrogen Content in Intrinsic a-Si:H on Performances of Heterojunction Solar Cells by Yun-Shao Cho, Chia-Hsun Hsu, Shui-Yang Lien, Dong-Sing Wuu, In-Cha Hsieh

“…Influences of hydrogen content in intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (i-a-Si:H) on performances of heterojunction (HJ) solar cells are investigated. The simulation result shows that in the range of 0–18% of the i-layer hydrogen content, solar cells with higher i-layer hydrogen content can have higher degree of dangling bond passivation on single crystalline silicon (c-Si) surface. …”
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