Glassy materials for Silicon-based solar panels: Present and future

Glass provides mechanical, chemical, and UV protection to solar panels, enabling these devices withstand weathering for several decades. The increasing demand electricity the need reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions require researchers develop new materials processes make even more sustainable. Here, we review current research create environmentally friendly glasses add features cover glass used in silicon such as anti-reflection, self-cleaning, spectral conversion properties. While studies have proposed converter designs reported information regarding their light-conversion efficiency, there is still a standardized protocol investigate compare impact of modified on electrical output photovoltaic systems. In light issues, propose framework quantifying parameters that can serve benchmarks comparing different glasses, which especially important search viable converter.