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In the past decade graphene has been one of the most studied material for several unique and excellent properties. Due to its two dimensional nature, physical and chemical properties and ease of manipulation, graphene offers the possibility…
Graphene based transistors relying on a conventional structure cannot switch properly because of the absence of an energy gap in graphene. To overcome this limitation, a barristor device was proposed, whose operation is based on the…
Fast and controllable cooling at nanoscales requires a combination of highly efficient passive cooling and active cooling. While passive cooling in graphene-based devices is quite effective due to graphene's extraordinary heat-conduction,…
This paper is devoted to photocarrier transport across a two-dimensional graphene-semiconductor Schottky junction. We study linear response to monochromatic light with excitation energy well below the semiconductor band gap. The operation…
A systematic treatment of graphene-semiconductor junction is presented. Finite density of states at the Fermi level of graphene leads to exotic electronic properties at graphene-semiconductor interface. Quite generally, the Schottky-Mott…
Selecting suitable charge transport layers and suppressing non-radiative recombination at interfaces to the absorber layer are vital to maximize the efficiency of halide perovskite solar cells. In this work, high-quality perovskite thin…
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) show great promise as absorber materials in high-specific-power (i.e. high-power-per-weight) solar cells, due to their high optical absorption, desirable band gaps, and self-passivated surfaces.…
Despite the promising optoelectronic properties of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3)-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs), their commercial viability is hindered by interfacial energy misalignment, suboptimal light absorption, and thermal…
Sub-micrometer thin films are promising platforms for emerging flexible photovoltaic devices. Although the current market already produces efficient solar cells, the average wafer thickness of these devices remains far from the…
In this paper we carried out theoretical study of the general issues related to the efficiency of SiC:H/a-Si:H single- and multi-junction tandem solar cells. Implementation of numerical simulations by the use of AMPS-1D program of…
Slow light has been widely utilized to obtain enhanced nonlinearities, enhanced spontaneous emissions, and increased phase shifts owing to its ability to promote light-matter interactions. By incorporating a graphene microheater on a…
Light management is of great importance to photovoltaic cells, as it determines the fraction of incident light entering the device. An optimal pn-junction combined with an optimal light absorption can lead to a solar cell efficiency above…
Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…
Ultrathin solar cells reduce material usage and allow the use of lower-quality materials thanks to their one order of magnitude smaller thickness than their conventional counterparts. However, efficient photonic light-trapping is required…
We calculate the band structure of a two-dimensional GaAs/AlGaAs superlattice and estimate the ultimate efficiency of solar cells using this type of structure for solar energy conversion. The superlattice under consideration consists of…
This work emphasizes the potential of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells for increased power conversion efficiencies. By employing crystalline silicon (c-Si) as the bottom cell, particularly with p-type PERC technology, there are…
A method for improving the efficiency of solar cells is combining a low-bandgap semiconductor with a singlet fission material (which converts one high energy singlet into two low energy triplets following photoexcitation). Here we present a…
The design of metallic contact grids on the front side of thermophotovoltaic cells is critical since it can cause significant optical and electrical resistive losses, particularly in the near field. However, from the theoretical point of…
Solar cells manufactured on top of Ge substrates suffer from inherent drawbacks that hinder or limit their potential. The most deleterious ones are heavy weight, high bulk recombination, lack of photon confinement and an increase of the…
Thermoelectric materials open a way to harness dissipated energy and make electronic devices less energy-demanding. Heat-to-electricity conversion requires materials with a strongly suppressed thermal conductivity but still high electronic…