Abstract SCAPS simulation was utilized to complement previously published perovskite-on-Si tandem solar devices and explore herein viable all-perovskite 4-T mechanically stacked 2-T monolithic non-Pb structures. CsSn 0.5 Ge I 3 (1.5 eV) used as top cell wide bandgap absorber, while CsSnI (1.3 chosen bottom low absorber. The simulated with AM 1.5G 1 Sun spectrum, the filtered spectrum from cell....

In this paper, we propose a novel microfluidic tunable metamaterial (MM) absorber printed on a paper substrate in silver nanoparticle ink. The metamaterial is designed using a periodic array consisting of square patches. The conductive patterns are inkjet-printed on paper using silver nanoparticle inks. The microfluidic channels are laser-etched on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). The conductive...

The quartz/Al-ZnO film/nanostructured Al-ZnO/CdSe/Cu2O extremely thin absorber solar cell has been successfully realized. The Al-doped ZnO one-dimensional nanostructures on quartz templates covered by a sputtering Al-doped ZnO film was used as the n-type electrode. A 19- to 35-nm-thin layer of CdSe absorber was deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering, coating the ZnO nanostructures. T...

Metamaterial absorbers have attracted considerable attention for applications in the terahertz range. In this Letter, we report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a terahertz dual band metamaterial absorber that shows two distinct absorption peaks with high absorption. By manipulating the periodic patterned structures as well as the dielectric layer thickness of the metal-dielectr...

Sb2(S1-x,Sex)3 compounds with tunable band gap values received considerable attention as solar absorber candidates for efficient thin film cells. However, the efficiency of Sb2(S,Se)3 cells is limited to less than 10.5 %. An investigation into performance contact/Hole Transport Layer (HTL)/ Sb2(S,Se)3/Electron (ETL)/contact has been carried out. The transformation photogenerated carriers in HTL...

In this paper, a thin-film InP-based solar cell designed and simulated. The proposed InP solar cell has a periodic array of plasmonic back-reflector, which consists of a silver layer and two silver nanowires. The indium tin oxide (ITO) layer also utilized as an anti-reflection coating (ARC) layer on top. The design creates a light-trapping structure by using a plasmonic back-reflector and an an...

The ultrafast saturable absorption in graphene is experimentally and theoretically investigated in the femtosecond (fs) time regime. This phenomenon is well-modeled with valence band depletion, conduction band filling and ultrafast intraband carrier thermalization. The latter is dominated by intraband carrier-carrier scattering with a scattering time of 8 ( +/- 3) fs, which is far beyond the ti...

In the last decade, photovoltaics (PV) has experienced an important transformation. Traditional solar cells formed by compact semiconductor layers have been joined by new kinds of cells that are constituted by a complex mixture of organic, inorganic and solid or liquid electrolyte materials, and rely on charge separation at the nanoscale. Recently, metal organic halide perovskites have appeared...

Generation of short optical pulses with semiconductor laser diodes is important for high bit rate time-division multiplexed communication systems, ultrafast data processing, and picosecond optoelectronic applications. Because the pulse shaping mechanisms are determined by the saturation and recovery time of the gain and absorber sections in mode-locked lasers,’ it is possible to generate short ...

We present the theory, design, and realization of a polarization-insensitive metamaterial absorber for terahertz frequencies. Effective-medium theory is used to describe the absorptive properties of the metamaterial in terms of optical constants—a description that has been thus far lacking. From our theoretical approach, we construct a device that yields over 95% absorption in simulation. Our f...