Enhanced Self-Assembled Monolayer Surface Coverage by ...
Recent Advances in Plasmonic Perovskite Solar Cells
[15-17] Surface plasmons at the interfaces or surfaces of delicately constructed metal nanostructures are able to capture electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths beyond the nanoscale, which …
Surface Reaction Induced Compressive Strain for Stable …
Consequently, enhanced power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 21.0% and 18.6% were respectively achieved in 0.16-cm2 lab-scale devices and 25.3-cm2 solar …
Interface-enhanced organic solar cells with extrapolated T80 …
Interface-enhanced organic solar cells with extrapolated T 80 lifetimes of over 20 years. Author links open overlay panel Xiang Xu a 1, Jingyang Xiao a 1, Guichuan Zhang a b, ... Enhanced lifetime of polymer solar cells by surface passivation of metal oxide buffer layers. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 7 (2015), pp. 16093-16100. Crossref View …
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
In perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the charge transfer (CT) process at the electron transport layer/photosensitive layer heterojunction has a significant effect on the power conversion efficiency. However, obtaining nondestructive and microscopic information of the interfacial CT process is still challenging.
Surface plasmon enhancement of polymer solar cells by …
DOI: 10.1016/J.NANOEN.2013.03.011 Corpus ID: 93949258 Surface plasmon enhancement of polymer solar cells by penetrating Au/SiO2 core/shell nanoparticles into all organic layers @article{Chen2013SurfacePE, title={Surface plasmon enhancement of …
Recent Advances in Plasmonic Perovskite Solar Cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged recently as promising candidates for next generation photovoltaics and have reached power conversion efficiencies of 25.2%. Among the various methods to …
Recent Advances in Plasmonic Perovskite Solar Cells
[15-17] Surface plasmons at the interfaces or surfaces of delicately constructed metal nanostructures are able to capture electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths beyond the nanoscale, which has various applications, such as surface-enhanced spectroscopies, biological and chemical sensing, nanolithography, solar cells, …
Surface treatment of the perovskite via self-assembled dipole …
Surface treatment of the perovskite via self-assembled dipole layer enabling enhanced efficiency and stability for perovskite solar cells ... J. Kong, Surface engineering of TiO 2 ETL for highly efficient and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cell (21.4%) with enhanced open-circuit voltage and stability, Adv. Energy Mater. 8 (2018 ...
Mixed perovskites (2D/3D)-based solar cells: a review on
Solar cells based on a three-dimensional (3D) crystalline perovskite framework exhibit desired photoconversion efficiency. However, 3D perovskites are prone to surface defects, leading to severe Shockley–Read–Hall (SRH) recombination and insufficient interactions between components, resulting in lower efficiency and stability. In …
Efficient plasmon-enhanced perovskite solar cells by molecularly ...
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are becoming a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic cells due to their attractive power conversion efficiency (PCE). Plasmonic enhancement is regarded as an optical tuning approach for further improving the PCE of single-junction PSCs toward Shockley-Queisser limit.
Design of plasmonic nanoparticles for increasing efficiency and ...
Plasmonic structures are desirable methods of improving localized light absorption and improving the performance of thin solar cells. The metal nanostructures control light concentration and trap at a submicrometric scale. This paper presents a metal–insulator-metal waveguide for improving solar cell absorption and efficiency. …
Surface-plasmon enhanced absorption in organic solar cells by …
We demonstrate improved efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) by employing a periodically corrugated metallic electrode in the OSCs. The improved efficiency can be attributed to the absorption enhancement resulted from the excitation of propagating surface-plasmon polariton (SPP) modes at the corrugated metal/organic interface.
Surface-Treated TiO2 Nanoparticles for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells …
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were prepared by capitalizing on mesoporous P-25 TiO2 nanoparticle film sensitized with N719 dyes. Subjecting TiO2 nanoparticle films to TiCl4 treatment, the device performance was improved. More importantly, O2 plasma processing of TiO2 film that was not previously TiCl4-treated resulted in a lower efficiency; by …
Surface passivation of perovskite film for efficient solar …
Planar perovskite solar cells that have been passivated using the organic halide salt phenethylammonium iodide are shown to …
Surface Modification of PEDOT:PSS for Enhanced Performance …
Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with PEDOT:PSS as hole transporting layers exhibit tremendous prospects for flexible photovoltaic applications owing to their characteristics of low-temperature solution processability and favorable flexibility. Nevertheless, the energy level mismatch of PEDOT:PSS and perovskite layer results in a …
Performance enhancement of perovskite solar cells: surface is …
Zhang H, Cheng J, Lin F, et al. Pinhole-free and surface-nanostructured NiO x film by room-temperature solution process for high-performance flexible perovskite …
Plasmonic enhanced solar cells: Summary of possible strategies …
Plasmonics applied to solar cells has emerged as a rapidly growing new area of research in the last ten years, with a strong increase between 2006 and 2012, as testified by the growth in the number of papers reported in Fig. 1.These data were extracted from the Scopus database with the combined "plasmon" and "solar cell" search terms; a …
Full-Spectrum Liquid-Junction Quantum Dot–Sensitized Solar Cells by Integrating Surface Plasmon–Enhanced Electrocatalysis
Full-spectrum solar energy utilization is the ultimate goal of high-performance photovoltaic devices. However, the present approaches to enhance sunlight harvesting in the cost-effective quantum dot–sensitized solar cells mainly focus on the use of high-frequency ...
Recent advances of perovskite materials for surface enhanced …
them highly promising for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applications. For the first time, ... Meanwhile, the PCE of the perovskite solar cell was 14% through the treatment of a 1:4 vol ratio of EtOH and CHCl 3, which was 5.9% higher ...
Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells
Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells S. Pillai,a K. R. Catchpole, T. Trupke, and M. A. Green ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052 Received 16 November 2006; accepted 20 March 2007 ...
An investigation of the effect of high-pressure on charge transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy ...
The interfacial charge transfer (CT) that plays an important role in enhancing the photoelectric conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has not always been fully explored. Here, a TiO 2 @N719@Ag DSSC system was constructed, and the CT processes have been monitored by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) …
Surface chemical polishing and passivation minimize non …
The efficiency of all-perovskite tandem solar cells is impacted by the nonradiative recombination loss in Sn–Pb mixed narrow bandgap perovskite films. Here, …
Recent advancements in plasmon-enhanced promising third …
The unique optical properties possessed by plasmonic noble metal nanostructures in consequence of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) are useful in diverse applications like photovoltaics, sensing, non-linear optics, hydrogen generation, and photocatalytic pollutant degradation. The incorporation of plasmonic metal …
Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Inverted CsPbI2Br Perovskite Solar ...
All-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently received increasing attention due to their outstanding thermal stability. However, the performance of these devices, especially for the devices with a p–i–n structure, is still inferior to that of the typical organic–inorganic counterparts. In this study, we introduce phenylammonium …
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Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices
Application of Plasmonics in Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement: a …
We need electrical energy for our various daily life activities, and the existing fossil fuel will serve the purpose for a limited period only. Therefore, we need to look at alternate energy resources for long-term sustainable growth. Solar energy has been considered as one of the potential viable alternate sources of non-conventional energy. …
Enhanced photovoltaic properties in dye sensitized solar cells by ...
We report the fabrication and testing of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) based on tin oxide (SnO2) particles of average size ~20 nm. Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conducting glass substrates ...
Effects of Plasmonic Metal Core -Dielectric Shell ...
Effects of Plasmonic Metal Core -Dielectric Shell ...
Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells
ous work on enhanced emission from 95 nm thick silicon-on-insulator SOI light-emitting diodes, which yielded an en-hancement factor of 8 at a wavelength of 900 nm.6 There has been little experimental work reported to date using surface plasmons in solar cell applications. Previous work with thick wafer-based solar cells has shown some ...
Advances in the Surface Passivation of Silicon Solar Cells
The negative fixed charge density in combination with a relatively low interface state density also provides the best passivation achieved to date on boron-diffused p + -emitters as well as screen-printed Al-p + emitters for n- type silicon solar cells [5, 6]. Hence, today the surface passivation of silicon solar cells by Al 2 O 3 is considered ...
Hydroxyl substituted Spiro-OMeTAD as multi-site defect healing …
Ionic defects at surfaces and interfaces account for the trap-mediated nonradiative loss of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Because these defects are composed of positively and negatively charged species, developing surface passivation materials with multi-site defect healing capacity is desirable.
Surface Chlorination of ZnO for Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced ...
Defect states on the zinc oxide (ZnO) surface cause severe interfacial charge recombination and perovskite decomposition during device operation, which inevitably leads to efficiency loss and poor device stability, making the usage of ZnO in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) problematic.
Application of Plasmonics in Solar Cell Efficiency ...
Collective oscillation of surface charge density at the metal–dielectric interface is called surface plasmon. Enhanced electromagnetic near-fields due to surface plasmon resonance play major role in enhancing various optical properties and offer better performance in detecting surface enhanced Raman scattering, chemical sensing, THz …
Surface Reconstruction for Efficient NiOx‐Based Inverted …
A record efficiency of 25.64% is achieved for NiOx-based inverted perovskite solar cell via a surface reconstruction strategy utilized lead chelation (LC) …
Perovskite-loaded plasmonic gold nanorod composites enhanced solar cell ...
As a renewable green energy, solar cells can cope with environmental pollution and the shortage of fossil energy, so they are widely concerned by the scientific community. However, although the perovskite layer has excellent light absorption capacity, its thickness is limited in terms of the morphology and carrier migration. The use of …
