نتایج جستجو برای: solar energy conversion

تعداد نتایج: 848319  

2010
Halil Berberoğlu Laurent Pilon

A numerical study is presented aiming to maximize the solar to hydrogen energy conversion efficiency of a mixed culture containing microorganisms with different radiation characteristics. The green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC125 and the purple non-sulfur bacteria Rhodobacter sphearoides ATCC 49419 are chosen for illustration purposes. The previously measured radiation characteristics of ...

Journal: :Nanotechnology 2013
Vladan Mlinar

Understanding how to engineer nanomaterials for targeted solar-cell applications is the key to improving their efficiency and could lead to breakthroughs in their design. Proposed mechanisms for the conversion of solar energy to electricity are those exploiting the particle nature of light in conventional photovoltaic cells, and those using the collective electromagnetic nature, where light is ...

2010
Sheng Shen

Due to global climate change and the security of energy supplies, a major scientific challenge of the 21st century is to change our current fossil-fuel-based economy to the one that is more sustainable. Among the various sources of renewable energy, solar energy is essentially unlimited and consequently, one of the most promising sources to meet the world’s growing energy demand. Solar photovol...

2012
Diane Wu

A. Investigators Jennifer Dionne, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford Alberto Salleo, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford Diane Wu, Graduate student, Chemistry, Stanford University Michael Wisser, Graduate student, Materials Science, Stanford Aitzol Garcia, Postdoctoral researcher, Materials Science, Stanford University Koen Vandewal...

Journal: :Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 2007
Michael Grätzel

The Sun provides approximately 100,000 terawatts to the Earth which is about 10000 times more than the present rate of the world's present energy consumption. Photovoltaic cells are being increasingly used to tap into this huge resource and will play a key role in future sustainable energy systems. So far, solid-state junction devices, usually made of silicon, crystalline or amorphous, and prof...

2013
Neil P. Dasgupta Peidong Yang

Semiconductor nanowires (NW) possess several beneficial properties for efficient conversion of solar energy into electricity and chemical energy. Due to their efficient absorption of light, short distances for minority carriers to travel, high surface-to-volume ratios, and the availability of scalable synthesis methods, they provide a pathway to address the low cost-to-power requirements for wi...

2015
Svetlana V Boriskina Martin A Green Kylie Catchpole Eli Yablonovitch Matthew C Beard Yoshitaka Okada Stephan Lany Talia Gershon Andriy Zakutayev Mohammad H Tahersima Volker J Sorger Michael J Naughton Krzysztof Kempa Mario Dagenais Yuan Yao Lu Xu Xing Sheng Noah D Bronstein John A Rogers A Paul Alivisatos Ralph G Nuzzo Jeffrey M Gordon Di M Wu Michael D Wisser Alberto Salleo Jennifer Dionne Peter Bermel Jean-Jacques Greffet Ivan Celanovic Marin Soljacic Assaf Manor Carmel Rotschild Aaswath Raman Linxiao Zhu Shanhui Fan Gang Chen

For decades, progress in the field of optical (including solar) energy conversion was dominated by advances in the conventional concentrating optics and materials design. In recent years, however, conceptual and technological breakthroughs in the fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics combined with a better understanding of the thermodynamics of the photon energyconversion processes reshaped th...

2010
Furkan Dinçer Mehmet Emin Meral

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device which generates electricity directly from visible light. However, their efficiency is fairly low. So, the solar cell costs expensive according to other energy resources products. Several factors affect solar cell efficiency. This paper presents the most important factors that affecting efficiency of solar cells. These effects are cell temperature, M...

2015
Waheed A. Badawy

Solar energy conversion to electricity through photovoltaics or to useful fuel through photoelectrochemical cells was still a main task for research groups and developments sectors. In this article we are reviewing the development of the different generations of solar cells. The fabrication of solar cells has passed through a large number of improvement steps considering the technological and e...

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