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Integration of dye solar cells in load- bearing translucent glass fiber- reinforced polymer laminates

Thomas Keller, Andreas Schueler, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Carlos Pascual Agullo

The encapsulation of dye solar cells in translucent, structural and lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer laminates was investigated with a view to designing multifunctional envelopes for daylit buildings. Small and large integrating sphere experiment ...

SAGE Publications2017

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Considering the increasing global demand for energy and the harmful ecological impact of conventional energy sources, it is obvious that development of clean and renewable energy is a necessity. Since the Sun is our only external energy source, harnessing ...

MDPI2016

Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Sylvain Nicolay, Björn Niesen, Monica Morales Masis, Jérémie Werner, Ali Dabirian

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are commonly used in a wide spectrum of device applications, thanks to their interesting electronic, photochromic, and electrochromic properties. Their environmental sensitivity, exploited for gas and chemical sensors, is how ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) cannot be developed without the research on sensitizers. As the key of light harvesting and electron generation, thousands of sensitizers have been designed for the application in DSSC devices. Among them, organic sensiti ...

Higher Education Press2016

Micron-scale rod-like scattering particles for light trapping in nanostructured thin film solar cells

Ali Dabirian

Spherical dielectric particles, nanofibers, and nanorods have been widely used as embedded scattering objects in nanostructured thin film solar cells. Here we propose micron-scale rod-like dielectric particles as a more effective alternative to the spheric ...

RSC Publishing2015

Computational studies for the characterization and design of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with improved efficiencies

Negar Ashari Astani

During millions of years of evolution, all creatures have found their ways of harvesting, storing and utilizing the energy coming from the sun. Plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide to glucose. With a low efficiency of only 3%, plants still c ...

EPFL2015

The effect of metal-free chromophores on dye-sensitized solar cell performance is investigated. Solid state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSCs) using different molecular sensitizers based on triphenylamine (TPA) with thiophene linkers and different alkyl c ...

2014

Lanthanides in Solar Energy Conversion

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin

Solar energy represents an abundant (1000 W·m-2) and seemingly cheap source of energy. One way to tap it is to transform light into electricity with photovoltaic devices. Single junction solar cells presently reach 32% conversion yield under 1-sun illumina ...

Elsevier Science B.V.2014

Molecular Engineering of Phthalocyanine Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Yongjoo Kim, Simon Mathew

A series of novel near-infrared-absorbing zinc phthalocyanines bearing donor-chromophore-acceptor/anchoring groups have been synthesized to investigate their influence on solar cell performance. With the aim of extending the absorption spectra while mainta ...

American Chemical Society2014

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Titania nanofibers were fabricated using the industrial Nanospider (TM) technology. The preparative protocol was optimized by screening various precursor materials to get pure anatase nanofibers. Composite films were prepared by mixing a commercial paste o ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2013