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Materials for Solar Cell Applications: An Overview of TiO2, ZnO, Upconverting Organic and Polymer-Based Solar Cells
The present chapter gives an overview of third-generation solar cells with special emphasize on important synthesis protocol for ZnO, TiO2, and rare earth-based upconverting materials for their utilization in the...
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Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Application in Solar Cells
Unique structures and outstanding properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have drawn significant attention of scientific community working in materials science and engineering. Researchers are taking interest in...
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Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Energy crisis has become one of the main hurdles in the path of development and technology due to the rapid reduction of fossil. Renewable energy resources have gained the great importance in last few decades....
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Solar Cells and Optoelectronic Devices in Space
Optoelectronic devices including solar cells have been widely used in space and are extremely sensitive to substantially shorter wavelength electromagnetic radiations, e.g., gamma ray. Electrons and secondary ...
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Perspective of Nanomaterials in the Performance of Solar Cells
Solar cells have a great promise to solve the world energy crises in a sustainable way. In recent years, numerous efforts have been devoted on different aspects and performance of solar cells with a common tas...
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Photovoltaic-Based Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Characterization
Improving the conversion efficiency and reducing cost are the major tasks to make more energy competitive-based photovoltaics and able to replace the traditional fossil energies. In organic/inorganic-based sol...
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Multi-junction (III–V) Solar Cells: From Basics to Advanced Materials Choices
Solar cell efficiency can be associated with the ability of the solar cell to produce the maximum amount of electricity from a light energy source. There are many uses of multi-junction solar cells based upon ...
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Synthesis and Processing of Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials have emerged as a distinct class of modern materials. These materials are of significant importance due to their unique optical, electrical, thermal, and magnetic properties. Due to their tunable...