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The light absorption of [001] grown single-crystalline silicon wafers can be enhanced by chemical etching with potassium hydroxide resulting in a pyramid-like surface texture. Alongside this advantageous property in the context of solar…
The hot carrier solar cell (HCSC) has the potential for converting solar energy into electrochemical energy with an efficiency of 85.4%. For this, in addition to an idealized light absorber, the HCSC has to be connected to the external load…
In organic solar cells, photogenerated singlet excitons form charge transfer (CT) complexes, which subsequently split into free charge carriers. Here, we consider the contributions of excess energy and molecular quadrupole moments to the…
Silicon is a promising anode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to its exceptionally high specific capacity (3600 mAh g$^{-1}$), significantly exceeding that of conventional graphite. However, its practical application…
Bipolar nanopores, with asymmetric charge distributions, can induce significant ionic current rectification (ICR) at ultra-short lengths, finding potential applications in nanofluidic devices, energy conversion, and other related fields.…
In organic bulk heterojunction solar cells, the donor/acceptor interfacial energy offset ($\Delta E$) is found to provide the driving force for efficient charge separation which gives rise to high short circuit current density…
Conventional models of planar and bulk heterojunction organic solar cells have been extended by introducing doping in the active layer. We have studied the performance of organic solar cells as a function of dopant concentration. For bulk…
We consider the electronic transport properties of phosphorus (P) doped silicon nanowires (SiNWs). By combining ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations with a recursive Green's function method, we calculate the conductance…
Solar cells based on conventional semiconductors have low efficiency in converting solar energy into electricity because the excess energy beyond the gap of an incident solar photon is converted into heat by phonons. Here we show by ab…
The mobility of charge carriers in a semiconductor nanowire is explored as a function of increasing radius, assuming low temperatures where impurity scattering dominates. The competition between increased cross-section and the concurrent…
The reconstruction of the solar spectral irradiance (SSI) on various time scales is essential for the understanding of the Earth's climate response to the SSI variability. The driver of the SSI variability is understood to be the intensity…
As the conventional silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) approaches its scaling limits; many novel device structures are being extensively explored. Among them, the silicon nanowire transistor (SNWT) has…
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology, already achieving efficiencies surpassing 25%. However, effects such as hysteresis are commonly observed due to the interplay of ionic and electronic…
Photoconductivity of single-crystalline selenium nanotubes (SCSNT) under a range of illumination intensities of a 633nm laser is carried out with a novel two terminal device arrangement at room temperature. It's found that SCSNT forms…
Hot carrier solar cells allow potential efficiency close to the thermodynamical limit in ideal conditions. However, the feasability of such devices has not been clearly stated so far and only ideal cells were considered in previous studies.…
Mott-Schottky analysis is adapted to determine the built-in bias (Vbi) and doping density (N) of lead sulfide-zinc oxide colloidal quantum dot heterojunction solar cells. We show that charge injection barriers at the solar cell's electrodes…
In this article, we theoretically demonstrate multilevel impurity photovoltaic effect in an efficient silicon dual-homojunction solar cell that ensures an extended absorption of longer wavelength light. Along with suitable contact work…
Investigation of electrical conduction in polysilicon nanowires (polySiNW) with nanograins (5 to 20nm), based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and electrical measurements from 4K to 300K are presented. Some irregular Coulomb Oscillations…
The quantum well solar cell (QWSC) has been proposed as a route to higher efficiency than that attainable by homojunction devices. Previous studies have established that carriers escape the quantum wells with high efficiency in forward bias…
With excellent efficiencies being reported from multiple labs across the world, device stability and the degradation mechanisms have emerged as the key aspects that could determine the future prospects of perovskite solar cells. However,…