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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...

    Navadeep Shrivastava, Helliomar Barbosa, Khuram Ali, S. K. Sharma in Solar Cells (2020)

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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...

    Shazia Shukrullah, Muhammad Yasin Naz, Khuram Ali, S. K. Sharma in Solar Cells (2020)

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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....

    Hafeez Anwar, Iram Arif, Uswa Javeed, Huma Mushtaq, Khuram Ali, S. K. Sharma in Solar Cells (2020)

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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 ...

    Khuram Ali, Syedda Shaher Bano, Hasan M. Khan, S. K. Sharma in Solar Cells (2020)

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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...

    Hafiz Muhammad Asif Javed, Wenxiu Que, Muhammad Raza Ahmad, Khuram Ali in Solar Cells (2020)

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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...

    Kanwal Akhtar, Naveed Akhtar Shad, M. Munir Sajid, Yasir Javed in Solar Cells (2020)

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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 ...

    Khuram Ali, Afifa Khalid, Muhammad Raza Ahmad, Hasan M. Khan, Irshad Ali in Solar Cells (2020)

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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...

    Muhammad Yasin Naz, Shazia Shukrullah, Abdul Ghaffar, Khuram Ali in Solar Cells (2020)