New photovoltaic (PV) energy technologies can contribute to environmentally friendly, renewable energy production, and the reduction of the carbon dioxide emission associated with fossil fuels and biomass. One new PV technology, plastic solar cell technology, is based on conjugated polymers and molecules. Polymer solar cells have attracted considerable attention in the past few years owing to t...

The utilisation and optimisation of solar energy have a vital role in reducing the global need for conventional fossil energy. Moreover, it is also clean eco-environmentally resources. photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) hybrid system that combines photovoltaic photothermal technology an ideal solution creating high-efficiency conversion devices. In addition, this can be constructed to small compact wi...

Solar heating and cooling, concentrating solar power photovoltaic are three technologies which harness energy. Photovoltaic Technology (PV) is directly converting sunlight into electricity it very convenient to use.

Keun-Young Park, Geun-Woo Kim, Yong-Jun Seo, Si-Nae Heo, Hang Ju Ko, Sung-Hun Lee, Tae Kwon Song and Bon Heun Koo* School of Nano & Advanced Materials Engineering, Changwon National University, Chang Won, Korea Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic device center, Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI), Gwangju, Korea Department of Material Processing, Advanced Thin Film Research Group, Korea In...

junctions for photovoltaic applications Peng Zhang, Pei Liu, Stylianos Siontas, A. Zaslavsky, D. Pacifici, Jong-Yoon Ha, S. Krylyuk, and A. V. Davydov Department of Physics and School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Material Measurement Labor...

This paper presents a method of modeling and simulation of photovoltaic arrays in MATLAB® /Simulink® using solar cell block from SimElectronics® library. The method is used to determine the characteristic of a particular photovoltaic cell panel and to study the influence of different values of solar radiation at different temperatures concerning performance of photovoltaic cells. This model it ...

Nanostructures generated from block copolymer self-assembly enable a variety of potential technological applications. In this article we review recent work and the current status of two major emerging applications of block copolymer (BCP) nanostructures: lithography for microelectronics and photovoltaics. We review the progress in BCP lithography in relation to the requirements of the semicondu...

In this chapter, we will discuss the impact that photonics have on photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing. The broad field of photonics is now commonly thought to encompass classical optics (Hecht, 2001), nanophotonics (Joannopoulos et al., 2007), and metamaterials (Cai and Shalaev, 2009). Over the last few decades, photonic technology has become an increasingly integral part of PV manufacturing, both...