Measurements and Simulations on the Mechanisms of Efficiency Losses in HIT Solar Cells by Silvio Pierro, Andrea Scuto, Luca Valenti, Marina Foti, Anna Battaglia, Giovanni Mannino, Cosimo Gerardi, Felice Crupi, Salvatore Lombardo

“…We compare the HIT solar cell with a conventional crystalline silicon solar cell to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the HIT technology. …”
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Dependence of Performance of Si Nanowire Solar Cells on Geometry of the Nanowires by Firoz Khan, Seong-Ho Baek, Jae Hyun Kim

“…The dependence of performance of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) solar cells on the growth condition of the SiNWs has been described. …”
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Understanding the Effect of Grown-in Defects in Silicon on Solar Cell Efficiency by Jinta Mathew, Bulent Arikan, Sercan Aslan, Ryan Bugeja, Davide La Fata, Jessica Magro, Vahdet Özyahni, Selin Seyrek, Nurhayat Yildirim, Daniele Zingariello, Marija Demicoli, Raşit Turan, Luciano Mule' Stagno

Subjects: “…Silicon Solar Cell…”
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Semitransparent Polymer Solar Cells Based on Liquid Crystal Reflectors by Shaopeng Yang, Tiening Wang, Xiaohui Zhao, Luo Gu, Qiman Yang, Guang Li, Xiaowei Li, Guangsheng Fu

“…The effects of liquid crystal (LC) reflectors on semitransparent polymer solar cells (PSCs) were investigated in this paper. …”
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Nanostructured Dielectric Layer for Ultrathin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Yusi Chen, Yangsen Kang, Jieyang Jia, Yijie Huo, Muyu Xue, Zheng Lyu, Dong Liang, Li Zhao, James S. Harris

“…Nanostructures have been widely used in solar cells due to their extraordinary photon management properties. …”
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Retracted: Influence of Nanosemiconductor Materials on Thermal Stability of Solar Cells by International Journal of Analytical Chemistry

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Modelling of Dual-Junction Solar Cells including Tunnel Junction by Abdelaziz Amine, Yamina Mir, Mimoun Zazoui

“…Monolithically stacked multijunction solar cells based on III–V semiconductors materials are the state-of-art of approach for high efficiency photovoltaic energy conversion, in particular for space applications. …”
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Analysis of Surface Texturization of Solar Cells by Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Hsiao-Yen Chung, Chiun-Hsun Chen, Hsin-Sen Chu

“…The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple new model, based on the classic molecular dynamics simulation (MD), alternative to complex electron-photon interactions to analyze the surface texturization of solar cells. This methodology can easily propose the absorptance differences between texturing and nontexturing solar cells. …”
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A Perspective on Perovskite Solar Cells: Emergence, Progress, and Commercialization by Pengyu Zhang, Pengyu Zhang, Menglin Li, Wen-Cheng Chen

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Performance Degradation of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Induced by Electrolytes by Ru-Yuan Yang, Huang-Yu Chen, Fu-Der Lai

“…We investigated the change of the electric characteristics in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) when the electrolyte has been injected and measured initially and lately for a period of time. …”
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Exploring Spray-Coating Techniques for Organic Solar Cell Applications by Wanyi Nie, Robert Coffin, Jiwen Liu, Christopher M. MacNeill, Yuan Li, Ronald E. Noftle, David L. Carroll

“…We have investigated spray coating as a novel processing method for organic solar cell fabrication. In this work, spraying parameters and organic solvent influences have been correlated with cell performance. …”
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Fabrication and Characterization of Copper System Compound Semiconductor Solar Cells by Ryosuke Motoyoshi, Takeo Oku, Atsushi Suzuki, Kenji Kikuchi, Shiomi Kikuchi, Balachandran Jeyadevan, Jhon Cuya

“…Copper system compound semiconductor solar cells were produced by a spin-coating method, and their cell performance and structures were investigated. …”
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Characterization of the Manufacturing Processes to Grow Triple-Junction Solar Cells by N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, V. V. Evstropov, V. M. Lantratov, S. A. Mintairov, M. A. Mintairov, A. S. Gudovskikh, A. Luque, V. M. Andreev

“…A number of important but little-investigated problems connected with III-V/Ge heterostructure in the GaInP/GaInAs/Ge multijunction solar cells grown by MOVPE are considered in the paper. …”
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Multijunction solar cell parameter estimation based on metaheuristic algorithms by Marwa M. Elzalabani, Doaa M. Atia, Aref Y. Eliwa, Belal A. Abou Zalam, Mahmoud S. AbouOmar

Subjects: “…Multijunction solar cell…”
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Laminating Fabrication of Bifacial Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells by Yujing Yang, Yue Zhu, Xiaoxiao Wang, Qi Song, Chao Ji, Huimin Zhang, Zhiqun He, Chunjun Liang

“…Bifacial solar cells based on organic-inorganic perovskite are fabricated with a laminating process. …”
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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

“…Abstract Thermally evaporated C60 is a near-ubiquitous electron transport layer in state-of-the-art p–i–n perovskite-based solar cells. As perovskite photovoltaic technologies are moving toward industrialization, batch-to-batch reproducibility of device performances becomes crucial. …”
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Gesture recognition based on flexible solar cells and ultrathin hydrogel film by Rucheng WU, Wenbo DING, Xiaomin XU, Linqi SONG, Weitao XU

Subjects: “…flexible solar cells…”
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Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells by S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y. Jestin

“…PV devices based on silicon are the most common solar cells currently being produced, and it is mainly due to silicon technology that the PV has grown by 40% per year over the last decade. …”
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A Study on a Solar Simulator for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Kyoung-Jun Lee, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Ho-Sung Kim, Dongsul Shin, Dong-Wook Yoo, Hee-Je Kim

“…Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are emerging low-cost, simple alternatives to conventional solar cells. …”
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Electric Characterization and Modeling of Microfluidic-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell by Adriano Sacco, Andrea Lamberti, Marzia Quaglio, Stefano Bianco, Elena Tresso, Anca-Luiza Alexe-Ionescu, Candido F. Pirri

“…The electric response to an external periodic voltage of small amplitude of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) made up with an alternative architecture has been investigated. …”
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