Solar panels are landfilled, recycled, or repurposed. Landfill is the most common, but is bad for the environment. Recycling ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oes.2024.240002 , discusses boosting UV Light Absorption in 2D Semiconductor with quantum dot hybrids for enhanced light emission. Two ...

Researchers working on 3D photovoltaics at the Amolf institute, in the Netherlands, have modeled an ultra-thin photovoltaic membrane made of silicon which they claim would be able to absorb 65% of ...

Commercial silicon-based solar cells have made significant improvements in efficiency over the past decade, increasing from ...

This leads to a drastic increase in their manufacturing costs. Photon-trapping micro- and nano-sized holes in silicon (Si) make normally incident light bend by almost 90°, making it propagate ...

The semiconductor industry revolves around silicon (Si), but it exhibits poor light absorption in the near-infrared spectrum utilized in emerging photonic systems. In a recent study, researchers ...

The different spectroscopy types discussed here include X-ray, flame, AE, AA, spark emission, UV, IR and NIR spectroscopy, as well as NMR.

Moth Eye Effect Pristine silicon solar cells reflect a significant percentage of incident solar light (i.e. >30 percent in the UV to near-IR spectrum) because of the high refractive index of silicon.

Whispering gallery modes enhance the near-infrared photoresponse of hourglass-shaped silicon nanowire photodiodes. Nature Electronics, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41928-019-0317-z ...

Journal Reference: Kuo et al. Realization of a near-perfect antireflection coating for silicon solar energy utilization. Optics Letters, 2008; 33 (21): 2527 DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002527 ...