Enhanced Light Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells Using a Plasmonic Fishnet Structure by Sayan Seal, Vinay Budhraja, Liming Ji, Vasundara V. Varadan

“…Incorporating plasmonic structures into the back spacer layer of thin film solar cells (TFSCs) is an efficient way to improve their performance. …”
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Crystalline Silicon PERC Solar Cell with Ozonized AlOx Passivation Layer on the Rear Side by Pang-Kai Liu, Yu-Lun Cheng, Likarn Wang

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Multifunctional Graphdiyne Enables Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells via Anti-Solvent Additive Engineering by Cong Shao, Jingyi He, Jiaxin Ma, Yirong Wang, Guosheng Niu, Pengfei Zhang, Kaiyi Yang, Yao Zhao, Fuyi Wang, Yongjun Li, Jizheng Wang

Subjects: “…Perovskite solar cells…”
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Simulation and analysis of ZnO/SWCNT solar cell using the SCAPS-1D program by Najim Abdelhafid, Laassouli Abdelmounaim, Moulaoui Lhouceine, Bajjou Omar, Rahmani Khalid

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Optimization and Numerical Modeling of TCO/SnO2/CdS/CdTe Solar Cells by Parinaz Khaledi, Mahdi Behboudnia, Mohammad Karimi

“…Due to the excellent performance of the CdTe solar cells, research is ongoing to increase the efficiency of these cells. …”
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Annealing Effects on GaAs/Ge Solar Cell after 150 keV Proton Irradiation by Meihua Fang, Tao Fei, Mengying Bai, Yipan Guo, Jingpeng Lv, Ronghui Quan, Hongbo Lu, Huiping Liu

“…Radiation-induced defects are responsible for solar cell degradation. The effects of radiation and annealing on the defects of a GaAs/Ge solar cell are modeled and analyzed in this paper. …”
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Are dye-sensitized nano-structured solar cells stable? An overview of device testing and component analyses by Egbert Figgemeier, Anders Hagfeldt

“…The nano-structured dye-sensitized solar cell (DNSC) is considered as a promising technology having the potential to significantly decrease the costs of solar energy. …”
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Heterovalent Cation Substitutional and Interstitial Doping in Semiconductor Sensitizers for Quantum Dot Cosensitized Solar Cell by Ningning Zhang, Xiaoping Zou, Yanyan Gao

“…The novel Bi-doped-PbS/CdS and Ag-doped-PbS/CdS quantum dot cosensitized solar cell (QDCSC) were fabricated and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 2.4% and 2.2% was achieved, respectively, under full sun illumination.…”
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Advantages of N-Type Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide Films for Micromorph Silicon Solar Cells by Amornrat Limmanee, Songkiate Kittisontirak, Sorapong Inthisang, Taweewat Krajangsang, Jaran Sritharathikhun, Kobsak Sriprapha

“…It was found that all photovoltaic parameters of the micromorph silicon solar cells using the n top μc-SiO:H layer enhanced with increasing the CO2/SiH4 ratio up to 0.23, where the highest initial cell efficiency of 10.7% was achieved. …”
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Study on the Electrical Injection Regeneration of Industrialized B-Doped Czochralski Silicon PERC Solar Cells by Jiaxing Ye, Bin Ai, Jingsheng Jin, Depeng Qiu, Runxiong Liang, Hui Shen

“…In this paper, 156 mm×156 mm boron-doped Czochralski silicon (Cz-Si) wafers were fabricated into PERC solar cells by using the industrial standard process; then, the as-prepared PERC solar cells were treated by the regeneration process using electrical injection and heating and the effects of different regeneration processes (temperature, time, and injection current) on the anti-light-induced degradation (anti-LID) performance of the PERC solar cells were investigated. …”
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Investigation of Low-Cost Surface Processing Techniques for Large-Size Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Yuang-Tung Cheng, Jyh-Jier Ho, William J. Lee, Song-Yeu Tsai, Yung-An Lu, Jia-Jhe Liou, Shun-Hsyung Chang, Kang L. Wang

“…The subject of the present work is to develop a simple and effective method of enhancing conversion efficiency in large-size solar cells using multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafer. …”
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The III–V Triple-Junction Solar Cell Characteristics and Optimization with a Fresnel Lens Concentrator by Yin Guo, Qibing Liang, Bifen Shu, Jing Wang, Qingchuan Yang

“…The results show that the III–V triple-junction solar cell has the highest output power in both sides of the focal plane positions. …”
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Performance Improvement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell- (DSSC-) Based Natural Dyes by Clathrin Protein by Prihanto Trihutomo, Sudjito Soeparman, Denny Widhiyanuriyawan, Lilis Yuliati

“…Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) is a solar cell device that works using electrochemical principles in which sensitive dyes are absorbed in the TiO2 photoelectrode layer. …”
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Ultrathin Oxide Passivation Layer by Rapid Thermal Oxidation for the Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell Applications by Youngseok Lee, Woongkyo Oh, Vinh Ai Dao, Shahzada Qamar Hussain, Junsin Yi

“…It is difficult to deposit extremely thin a-Si:H layer in heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cell due to thermal damage and tough process control. …”
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A review on perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications by Lalruat Sanga, Celestine Lalengmawia, Zosiamliana Renthlei, Sougaijam Thasana Chanu, Lalhum Hima, Ningthoujam Surajkumar Singh, Andre Yvaz, Sagar Bhattarai, D.P. Rai

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Synthesis and Characterization of a Gel-Type Electrolyte with Ionic Liquid Added for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Le-Yan Shi, Tien-Li Chen, Chih-Hao Chen, Kun-Ching Cho

“…This study intends to develop the electrolyte needed in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Moreover, three different ionic liquids in different molalities are added to the gel-type electrolyte. …”
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Computational Prediction of Electronic and Photovoltaic Properties of Anthracene-Based Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Hongbo Wang, Qian Liu, Dejiang Liu, Runzhou Su, Jinglin Liu, Yuanzuo Li

“…Three kinds of anthracene-based organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were studied, and their structures are based on a push–pull framework with anthracenyl diphenylamine as the donor connected to a carboxyphenyl or carboxyphenyl-bromothiazole (BTZ) as the acceptor via an acetylene bridge. …”
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Characterization of Nanocrystalline SiGe Thin Film Solar Cell with Double Graded-Dead Absorption Layer by Chao-Chun Wang, Dong-Sing Wuu, Shui-Yang Lien, Yang-Shih Lin, Chueh-Yang Liu, Chia-Hsum Hsu, Chia-Fu Chen

“…An initial conversion efficiency of 5.06% and the stabilized efficiency of 4.63% for an nc-SiGe solar cell were achieved.…”
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Aluminum-Doped SnO2 Hollow Microspheres as Photoanode Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Binghua Xu, Zeng Chen, Shengjun Li

“…As-prepared SnO2 microspheres were applied as photoanode materials in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The properties of the assembled DSCs were significantly improved, especially the open-circuit voltage. …”
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Separation of Functionalized 5,6-Disubstituted-1,10-Phenanthroline for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications by Hashem Shahroosvand, Parisa Abbasi, Behrouz Notash, Leyla Najafi

“…5,6-Epoxy-1,10-phenanthroline is used as a convenient starting material for 5-hydroxy-6-Aryl-1,10-phenanthroline ligands containing carboxylic and sulfonic groups useful for further anchoring of the sensitizer on TiO2 for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Based on the crystal growth of the mixture of products, a convenient separation route for the extension of the p-system on 5,6-disubstituted-1,10-phenanthroline was used to develop a novel series of functionalized 1,10-phenanthroline ligands with electron-withdrawing end-capping group. …”
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