Tunable Photovoltaics: Adapting Solar Cell Technologies to Versatile Applications (Adv. Energy Mater. 28/2022)

Meddeb, Hosni; Götz‐Köhler, Maximilian; Neugebohrn, Nils; Banik, Udayan; Osterthun, Norbert; Sergeev, Oleg; Berends, Dennis; Lattyak, Colleen; Gehrke, Kai; Vehse, Martin

doi:10.1002/aenm.202270121

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“…Its integration with glass/building materials is often thermally processed to use FITE‐TPVs in buildings; therefore, its durability can be examined. [ 3,4,22 ] This was checked by performing thermal processing in an air atmosphere for 10 min, followed by natural cooling. The AgNW‐ and FITE‐embedded TPVDs were preferred for comparison.…”

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“…The material of transparent electrodes (TEs) resemble the skin of devices used in both high‐tech and low‐tech applications, such as antistatic coatings, touch displays, solar cells, flat panel displays, heaters, defrosters, and optical coatings. [ 1–6 ] Regarding TEs in conducting oxides, metal nanowires (NWs), carbon nanotubes, graphene, organic hybrids, oxides, and their hybrids are preferred for energy devices owing to their stable transparency, electronic conductivity, and scalability in preparation. [ 7,8 ] The seminal work of Hosono and Ohta [ 1 ] on optoelectronic devices using TEs and oxide heterostructures mentions the functional role of oxides.…”

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Field‐Induced Transparent Electrode‐Integrated Transparent Solar Cells and Heater for Active Energy Windows: Broadband Energy Harvester

Patel

Kim

2023

Advanced Science

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Invisible power generation by natural and artificial light enables sustainability by onsite‐power deployment, lower cost, and minimal burden on the built environment. However, dark, opaque photovoltaics limit light utilization in a transparent way. Herein, it is proposed that the active energy window (AEW) invisibly features power production, providing higher freedom for onsite power generators in window objects without limiting human vision. The AEW has a transparent photovoltaic (TPV) for onsite power and a transparent heater (TH) to remove the effects of shadows from snow and recover the power lost. Moreover, a heating function is applied to remove the effects of weathering related to snow. The proposed prototype integrates a TPV‐TH, offering ultraviolet (UV)‐blocking, daylighting, thermal comfort, and onsite power with a power conversion efficiency of 3% (AM1.5G). Field‐induced transparent electrodes are applied to the TPV‐TH and designed considering the AEW. Owing to these electrodes, the AEW ensure a wide field‐of‐view without optical dead zones, ensuring see‐through vision. The first TPV‐TH integration is performed into a 2 cm2‐window that generates onsite power of 6 mW and has an average visible transmittance of ≈39%. It is believed that light can be utilized with comfort through the AEW in self‐sustainable buildings and vehicles.

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Field‐Induced Transparent Electrode‐Integrated Transparent Solar Cells and Heater for Active Energy Windows: Broadband Energy Harvester

Patel

Kim

2023

Advanced Science

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“…Simultaneously, flexible photovoltaic materials capable of high‐power conversion efficiency in the low light environments become developed for indoor applications [ 56 ] while near‐infrared dye‐sensitized solar cells can satisfy high aesthetic requirements, if required. [ 57 ] Researchers from the German Aerospace Center [ 58 ] gave a substantial report regarding adopting solar cells into versatile applications, including buildings, vehicles, extraterrestrial applications, etc.…”

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Photovoltaic Materials and Their Path toward Cleaner Energy

Mitrašinović

Radosavljević²

2022

Global Challenges

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Photovoltaic silicon converts sunlight in 95% of the operational commercial solar cells and has the potential to become a leading material in harvesting energy from renewable sources, but silicon can hardly convert clean energy due to technologies required for its reduction from sand and further purification. The implementation of the novel materials into photovoltaic systems depends on their conversion efficiency limited by the material's inherent properties, longevity dependent on internal stability, and ease of manufacturing process. A major challenge is discovering a multilayered set of different photovoltaic materials capable of converting clean energy from a wider spectra range since emerging materials and technologies such as dye‐sensitized and quantum dots suffer from low conversion efficiencies while perovskite and organic cells have short longevity in atmospheric conditions. Presently, improving technologies for commercialized materials and creating multijunction solar cells enhanced by new photovoltaic materials is a path toward cleaner energies. With the rapid development of the integrative technologies and challenges that photovoltaics for clean energy conversion are facing, the entire clean photovoltaic industry could arise by bottom‐up course as a part of integrative technologies rather than erecting large power plants.

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“…Well‐developed surfaces of the 3D nanostructures allow for a larger interfacial surface area, which causes stronger interactions between various materials and material systems. [ 127–129 ] Moreover, complex functional metamaterials can be designed on 3D interfacial systems for different applications, including energy, [ 130,131 ] plasmonics, [ 132,133 ] water treatment, [ 134,135 ] photonics, [ 136,137 ] and many others. [ 138,139 ] ✓ According to our concept of 3D interface, all the below considered examples illustrate the idea of 3D interface.…”

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Nanoengineered Carbon‐Based Interfaces for Advanced Energy and Photonics Applications: A Recent Progress and Innovations

Levchenko

Baranov

Riccardi

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Adv Materials Inter

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Tunable Photovoltaics: Adapting Solar Cell Technologies to Versatile Applications (Adv. Energy Mater. 28/2022)

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Field‐Induced Transparent Electrode‐Integrated Transparent Solar Cells and Heater for Active Energy Windows: Broadband Energy Harvester

Field‐Induced Transparent Electrode‐Integrated Transparent Solar Cells and Heater for Active Energy Windows: Broadband Energy Harvester

Photovoltaic Materials and Their Path toward Cleaner Energy

Nanoengineered Carbon‐Based Interfaces for Advanced Energy and Photonics Applications: A Recent Progress and Innovations

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