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A fluorene-terminated hole-transporting material for highly ...

A fluorene-terminated hole-transporting material for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells …

A fluorene-terminated hole-transporting material for highly ...

High performance fiber-shaped perovskite solar cells based on …

Research on perovskite solar cells is currently at a high level of activity and many types of special solar architectures have been derived. The fiber-shaped perovskite solar cell (FPSC) is one very important type of these architectures, as it could be a potential power source of portable/wearable electronic

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

Tandem solar cells, where two or more sub-cells with complementary absorption bands are internally integrated, provide an effective approach to enhance …

Thermochromic halide perovskite solar cells | Nature Materials

The solar cells undergo thermally-driven, moisture-mediated reversible transitions between a transparent non-perovskite phase (81.7% visible transparency) with low power output and a deeply ...

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Roof-integrated PV systems in Singapore using 60-cell silicon PV modules are considered. Three PV systems using different silicon PV technologies (cell or module) are investigated, as summarized in Table 1.The solar cells are made from p-type multi-Si wafers with a size of 156 mm × 156 mm × 180 µm.The module efficiency for scenarios 1 …

Organic and solution-processed tandem solar cells …

Tandem solar cells can boost efficiency by using a wider range of the solar spectrum. The bandgap of organic semiconductors can be tuned over a wide range, but, for a two-terminal device that directly …

Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with over 10% power conversion ...

Published: 23 July 2018; Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 solar cells with over 10% power conversion efficiency enabled by heterojunction heat treatment. Chang Yan 1 ...

High efficiency 4-terminal perovskite/c-Si tandem cells

DOI: 10.1016/J.SOLMAT.2018.07.032 Corpus ID: 104739122; High efficiency 4-terminal perovskite/c-Si tandem cells @article{Zhang2018HighE4, title={High efficiency 4-terminal perovskite/c-Si tandem cells}, author={Dong Zhang and Mehrdad Najafi and Valerio Zardetto and Martin D{"o}renk{"a}mper and Xuedong Zhou and Sjoerd Veenstra and L. …

Section 201 Solar Tariffs

On Jan. 23, 2018, President Trump signed a proclamation that placed tariffs on imported solar cells and modules for a period of four years. This decision came on the heels of a nearly 9-month case before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) after two solar manufacturers, Suniva and SolarWorld, filed a petition seeking tariffs. The final tariff will …

Section 201 – Imported Solar Cells and Modules

On January 23, 2018, USTR announced that the President had approved recommendations to provide relief to U.S. manufacturers and impose safeguard tariffs on imported solar cells and modules, based on the investigations, findings, and recommendations of the

2D perovskite stabilized phase-pure formamidinium perovskite solar cells

As of 2017, the state-of-the-art PVSK solar cell achieved a certified PCE of 22.7%, which is on par with well-established silicon solar cells 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12.

Opportunities and challenges for tandem solar cells using metal halide perovskite semiconductors …

Opportunities and challenges for tandem solar cells using ...

If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much

Environmental scientists and solar industry leaders are raising the red flag about used solar panels, which contain toxic heavy metals and are considered hazardous waste. ... May 23, 2018, 12:28pm ...

Perovskite/Colloidal Quantum Dot Tandem Solar Cells: …

Metal-halide perovskite-based tandem solar cells show great promise for overcoming the Shockley–Queisser single-junction efficiency limit via low-cost tandem structures, but so far, they employ conventional bottom-cell materials that require stringent processing conditions. Meanwhile, difficulty in achieving low-bandgap (<1.1 eV) …

Organic and solution-processed tandem solar cells with 17.3

The tandem cell strategy is an effective way to simultaneously address these issues for OPV cells (9, 10), and furthermore, is probably well suited for OPV (11–15) rst, the use of tandem cells would overcome the thickness constraint of single-junction cells due to the low mobility of organic materials because wide and efficient …

Large-area perovskite solar cells – a review of recent progress …

In recent years, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted great attention in the photovoltaic research field, because of their high-efficiency (certified 22.1%) and low-cost. …

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Read the latest articles of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells at ScienceDirect , Elsevier''s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. Skip to main content. ADVERTISEMENT ... [Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 183 (2018) 200–204] Ngwe Zin, Keith McIntosh, Sara Bakhshi, Abraham Vazquez-Guardado, ... Andrew Blakers. Page 57

A low cost and high performance polymer donor material for polymer solar cells | Nature …

A low cost and high performance polymer donor material ...

Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells

Oxford PV (United Kingdom) and Tandem PV (formerly Iris PV, United States) seek to use perovskites to upgrade the performance …

Vacuum assisted solution processing for highly efficient Sb2S3 solar cells

Chem. A, 2018, 6, 16322 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA05614E To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the ... (VASP) for fabricating high efficiency Sb2S3 solar cells. Our study uncovers that the VASP approach is able to fabricate By ...

Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Fill Factor via Interface Engineering with Graphene

2018 Apr 11;18(4):2442-2449. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00025. Epub 2018 Mar 19. Authors Xiaojuan Zhao 1, Leiming Tao ... As a result, highly efficient perovskite solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 20.2% can be achieved with an improved fill ...

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select article Balancing transformation and dissolution–crystallization for pure phase CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>PbI<sub>3</sub> growth and its effect on photovoltaic performance in planar-structure perovskite solar cells

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1. Introduction. Kesterite Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) is a promising thin film photovoltaic absorber material that contains earth-abundant and non-toxic constituents and has a near-optimum direct band gap energy of about 1.5 eV and a high absorption coefficient (>10 4 cm −1), which has been proposed as a potential alternative to traditional …

Carrier population control and surface passivation in solar cells

D. Yan, A. Cuevas, P. Phang, Y. Wan, D. Macdonald, 23% Efficient p-type crystalline silicon solar cells with hole-selective passivating contacts based on physical vapor deposition of doped silicon silms, submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett, 2018.

Anharmonicity and Disorder in the Black Phases of …

Hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites emerged as a new generation of absorber materials for high-efficiency low-cost solar cells in 2009. Very recently, fully inorganic perovskite quantum dots also led to …

Manufacturing cost and market potential analysis of demonstrated roll-to-roll perovskite photovoltaic cell …

Chang, Nathan L. ; Ho-Baillie, Anita Wing Yi ; Vak, Doojin et al. / Manufacturing cost and market potential analysis of demonstrated roll-to-roll perovskite photovoltaic cell processes : Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 2018 ; Vol. 174. pp. 314-324.

Opportunities and challenges for tandem solar cells using metal …

This Review highlights the unique potential of perovskite tandem solar cells to reach solar-to-electricity conversion efficiencies far above those of single-junction …

Hybrid Perovskites: Prospects for Concentrator Solar Cells

1 Introduction Perovskite solar cells have emerged over the last few years as highly promising photovoltaic applications, with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) improving at an unprecedented rate. Recent optimized PCE values 1 near 22.1% are now comparable with the most efficient thin film analogues, such as cadmium telluride and …

Solid-state-ligand-exchange free quantum dot ink-based solar cells …

While colloidal quantum dot based solar cells (CQDSCs) have recently achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCE) up to 11.3%, the CQD active layers are fabricated almost exclusively by a combined process of in situ solid-state ligand exchange (SSE) with multiple layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition, which has be

A review of transparent solar photovoltaic technologies

A review of transparent solar photovoltaic technologies

Organic and perovskite solar cells for space applications

Solar cell characteristics were acquired every 20 s, from a couple of hours before balloon''s lift-off to roughly two and a half hours after the beginning of the float phase. Further discussion about the acquired measurements is included in the Supporting information. ... Solar Energy, Volume 161, 2018, pp. 100-108. Jie Tang, …, Zhang Lan.

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The FTIR spectra of Na 2 SO 4 and Na 2 SO 4 @SiO 2 PCM composites with different silica mass percentages are shown in Fig. 3.For pure Na 2 SO 4, a peak at 1123 cm −1 is caused by the S-O stretching vibration and the peak at 615 cm −1 can be assigned to the S-O symmetric stretching vibration [22].With the addition of silica, the …

A review of clear sky radiative cooling developments and applications in renewable …

Although, Gentle and Smith [98] showed that in practice, other heat transfer modes (i.e. conductive, convective and reflectance from the cover glass) contribute more to cooling of a solar cell. They concluded that cooling a solar cell …

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A low cost and high performance polymer donor material for …

A low cost and high performance polymer donor material ...

Thermosensitive poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) as a transmission light ...

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume 163, 2017, pp. 231-236 S. Kiruthika, G.U. Kulkarni All-in-one dual responsive hydrogels for thermoelectrochromic (TEC) devices

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells | Vol 185, Pages 1-558 …

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