Solar Vapor‐Generation: Carbonized Bamboos as Excellent 3D Solar Vapor‐Generation Devices (Adv. Mater. Technol. 4/2019)

Corrigendum: A simple method for the quantification of molecular decorations on silica particles (2014 Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater. 15 015002)

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Solar Power: Carbonaceous Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cell Photoelectrodes (Adv. Sci. 3/2015)

CdTe Photovoltaic Devices for Solar Cell Applications

Cadmium telluride (CdTe) has been recognized as a promising photovoltaic material for thin-film solar cells because of its near optimum bandgap of ~1.5 eV and high absorption coefficient. The energy gap is near optimum for a single junction solar cell and the high absorption coefficient allows films as thin as 2 μm to absorb more than 98% of the above-bandgap radiation. Cells with efficiencies ...

Perovskite solar cells: from materials to devices.

Perovskite solar cells based on organometal halide light absorbers have been considered a promising photovoltaic technology due to their superb power conversion efficiency (PCE) along with very low material costs. Since the first report on a long-term durable solid-state perovskite solar cell with a PCE of 9.7% in 2012, a PCE as high as 19.3% was demonstrated in 2014, and a certified PCE of 17....

Metamaterials: Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension (Adv. Mater. 39/2015).

By exploiting snap-through instabilities, D. Pasini and co-workers design a damage-tolerant mechanical metamaterial that snaps sequentially under tension, thereby accommodating a very large deformation up to 150%. On page 5931, they describe how the nonlinear mechanical response of the metamaterial can be robustly programmed by tuning the architecture of its unit cell.