Tailoring solar energy spectrum for efficient organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells by up-conversion luminescence nanophosphors

Nanocrystals as performance-boosting materials for solar cells

“…Notably, NC additives also boost the performance of solar cells through defect passivation, plasmonic effect, solar concentration, light up-conversion and down-conversion/shifting, light scattering and reflection, and heat sinks. 222–258…”

“…Besides acting as a separate functional layer in efficient solar cells, NCs have also been used as additives to improve active layer quality, accelerate carrier transfer, convert infrared or ultraviolet light to visible light, scatter and reflect light, sink heat, and other functions. 222–258 The addition of NCs could enlarge the grain size of perovskite film, reduce the recombination, enhance charge extraction, improve the charge mobility, broaden the spectral response range, and so on.…”

Optical Properties and Concentration Quenching Mechanism of Er3+ Heavy Doped Gd2(MoO4)3 Phosphor for Green Light-Emitting Diode

“…Lanthanide-doped upconversion materials capable of converting low-energy near-infrared light to high-energy visible light are potential candidates for white light displays [ 1 ], upconversion lasers [ 2 ], solar cells [ 3 ], anticounterfeit labels [ 4 ], photocatalytic structures [ 5 ], volumetric color imaging [ 6 ], temperature measurement [ 7 ], super-resolution imaging [ 8 ], and biological fluorescence labeling [ 9 ]. However, some problems limit their applications, including low upconversion emission intensity.…”