Solar cells and optical fibers
Therefore, lots of large-area solar cells, including Si solar cells [21], perovskite solar cells [22], [23] and organic solar cells [24] use metal grids to mitigate the power loss. Unfortunately, in CNT/Si solar cells, the metal nanoparticles may penetrate though the CNT network and reach the Si surface, resulting in an electrical shortage. Although Li et al. utilized … - Download [PDF]
Large-area and high-efficiency carbon nanotube/silicon …
Therefore, lots of large-area solar cells, including Si solar cells [21], perovskite solar cells [22], [23] and organic solar cells [24] use metal grids to mitigate the power loss. Unfortunately, in CNT/Si solar cells, the metal nanoparticles may penetrate though the CNT network and reach the Si surface, resulting in an electrical shortage. Although Li et al. utilized …
Modelling of polymer optical fiber-based solar concentrators
Being environmentally friendly, photovoltaic solar energy has attracted the attention of numerous researchers. As a result, effective ways for taking better advantage of the surface area covered by semiconductor wafers have been devised, such as the employment of luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), which have been studied for several decades and still …
Fiber‐Type Solar Cells, Nanogenerators, Batteries, …
The fiber based energy storage devices are majorly fabricated by the following structural designs as parallel pattern twisted or intertwined pattern and wrapped pattern. The commonly used fibers for wearable energy devices are made of …
Self-powered textile for wearable electronics by …
Both of the harvested energies can be easily converted into electricity by using fiber-shaped dye-sensitized solar cells (for solar energy) and fiber-shaped triboelectric nanogenerators (for random body motion energy) …
Optimum Solar Conversion Cell Configurations | T2 …
A solar cell manufactured from this new optical fiber has photovoltaic (PV) material integrated into the fiber to enable electricity generation from unused light, including non-visible portions of the spectrum and visible light not …
Optical Fiber for Solar Cells
These new solar cells are based around cylindrical optical fibers, providing two distinct advantages over the flat panels that lead to increased efficiency. The core fiber, used to transmit light, can be adjusted to increase or decrease the amount of available light that is transmitted to the lighting application at any point in real time. This ...
Fiber-optic solar energy transmission and concentration
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(98)00083-X Corpus ID: 96261613; Fiber-optic solar energy transmission and concentration @article{Liang1998FiberopticSE, title={Fiber-optic solar energy transmission and concentration}, author={Dawei Liang and L. F. Monteiro and M. Ribau Teixeira and M. L. Fraser Monteiro and Manuel Collares-Pereira}, journal={Solar Energy Materials and …
Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber
Building a nanostructured cell on an optical fiber provides a way to do this by increasing both the surface area covered by the dye and the effective path length of the light, …
Silicon optical fibres – past, present, and future
This could be exploited to improve the thermoelectric properties [Citation 53], or microwire solar cell performance [Citation 54], due to increased scatter and current collection. Alternatively, laser processing can be employed to homogenize the composition, as shown in the inset of Figure 5 (c).
Optical Devices and Materials for Solar Energy and Solid-state …
This includes all aspects of novel optical materials, nanostructures and devices; ranging from surface coatings, textures and diffraction gratings to topics such as plasmonics, nanowires, quantum dots for application in solar cells and LEDs - both conventional and emerging types alike. It also explores the range of optical elements for collecting, guiding, …
Fiber-Shaped Polymer Solar Cell | SpringerLink
Currently, fiber-shaped solar cells are materialized in two types of solar cells, the polymer solar cell (PSC) and the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC), whose structures are technically feasible for transforming into one-dimensional configuration. In this chapter, we... Skip to main content. Advertisement. Account. Menu. Find a journal Publish with us Track your …
From Fiber to Fabric: Progress Towards Photovoltaic Energy Textile
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress of wearable fiber-type and fabric-type solar cells as well as its applications in hybrid energy textiles. For solar …
Highly efficient fiber-shaped organic solar cells toward wearable ...
Flexible fiber-shaped solar cells (FSCs) can not only supply electrical power but also easy to be weaved into clothing and textiles, which makes them promising candidates for …
(PDF) Simulation Study on Optical Absorption Property of Fiber
Simulation Study on Optical Absorption Property of Fiber- and Fabric-Shaped Organic Thin-Film Solar Cells with Resin Sealing Layer March 2015 Sen i Gakkaishi 71(3):121-126
Vertical optical-fiber solar cell hybrid system from …
South Korean scientists have built a vertical three-dimensional fiber-optic solar-cell system with greater maximum efficiency than planar solar modules, as well as a lower surface...
Solar Cells and Optoelectronic Devices in Space | SpringerLink
However, multiple solar cells such as gallium arsenide/indium gallium phosphide are important in space applications due to greater radiation resistance and high conversion efficiency as compared to silicon solar cell . Since, in the early 1990s the power requirements in satellites have increased significantly. Furthermore, for the enhancement of space applications, …
Fiber-optic solar energy transmission and concentration
The idea of concentrated solar energy transport by optical fibers was put forward in 1980 by a group of French investigators [2]. Owing to the unavailability of high-quality optical fibers and the high cost of their design, this project limited itself to theoretical analysis only. With the present day availability of fiber-optic techniques ...
Recent Advances and Challenges Toward Application of Fibers …
Fiber-based solar cells are then a recent concept and are composed of two electrodes, one coated with electron transport materials (ETM) such as TiO 2 and ZnO, photoactive reagents such as dye N719 for dye-sensitized solar cells, P3HT:PC61BM (poly(3-hexylthiophene) [6,6]:-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester) for polymer-based solar cells …
Silicon-core glass fibres as microwire radial-junction solar cells
The fabrication of vertically aligned radial-junction solar cells from polycrystalline, low purity silicon starting material, formed into silicon core, silica sheath fibres using bulk glass draw techniques has the potential to reduce the energy cost and the silicon volume required for solar cell production. Vertically aligned radial-junction solar cell designs offer potential …
Combined optical-electrical modeling of perovskite solar cell with …
Third generation perovskite-based photovoltaic technologies have proved outstanding evolution in conversion of solar energy since their first employment in 2009 [1].Owing to their superior and adjustable electro-optical characteristics, organic–inorganic halide perovskites have acquired considerable attention among different technologies, resulting in …
Aligned carbon nanotube fibers for fiber-shaped solar …
Compared with metal wires, aligned CNT fibers are more promising candidate serving as cathode or photoanode for wearable fiber-shaped solar cells, such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), polymer solar cells and perovskite solar …
Fiber-shaped flexible solar cells
Fiber-shaped solar cells broke limitations of the traditional flexible solar cells in shapes and materials, applied materials such as metal, optical fiber, conductive fiber, etc. to fabricate low cost and flexible photoelectrodes. The non-flat form of fiber substrates, on the one hand, increased absorption of scattered and reflected light, on the other hand, greatly …
Enhanced efficiency in hollow core electrospun nanofiber-based …
PANI hollow nanofibers improved buffer layer structural properties, enhanced optical absorption, and induced a more balanced charge transfer process. Solar cell …
Internal Lighting by Solar Collectors and Optical Fibres
requires a secondary optical system to reshape the image and to improve the light distribution uniformity. The introduction of optical concentrators, especially high concentration systems, has two positive effects: it reduces the area of expensive solar cells and it increases their efficiency.
Designing solar collectors and optical fibers for …
The work incorporates three lines of research: the first relates to optical systems for concentrating and transportating sunlight using optical fibers; the second concerns sunlight collectors that concentrate light onto photovoltaic (PV) cells; …
Luminescent solar concentrators based on melt-spun polymer optical fibers
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) collect incoming sunlight and direct it to a smaller-area photovoltaic cell. In the presented work, form factor and illumination angle-dependent performance of LSCs consisting of bi-component melt-spun fibers is demonstrated.
A review of the use of different technologies/methods for the ...
In hybrid solar systems, optical fibers distribute sunlight to both PV cells and thermal collectors, maximizing energy utilization and efficiency. Optical fibers reduce thermal losses in solar power systems and are used in daylighting systems to channel natural sunlight into buildings, lowering energy consumption. They also play a crucial role in monitoring and …
Solid-state, polymer-based fiber solar cells with carbon nanotube ...
DOI: 10.1021/nn304638z Corpus ID: 38575310; Solid-state, polymer-based fiber solar cells with carbon nanotube electrodes. @article{Liu2012SolidstatePF, title={Solid-state, polymer-based fiber solar cells with carbon nanotube electrodes.}, author={Dianyi Liu and Mingyan Zhao and Yan Li and Zuqiang Bian and Luhui Zhang and Yuanyuan Shang and …
Enhanced efficiency in hollow core electrospun nanofiber-based organic ...
Furthermore, the photovoltaic cell developed achieved the highest reported efficiency value ever reached for an electrospun fiber-based solar cell (PCE = 6.85%). Our results indicated that PANI ...
Techno-economic evaluation of an optical fiber based hybrid solar ...
The life spans of optical fibers, solar PV cells and secondary light concentrator are more than 20 years, and generally can be considered as maintenance free. The LED lamp lasts for about 50000 h, and there is almost no replacement cost within 20 years. The solar tracker and other accessories can serve for 20 years with proper maintenance and routine …
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Fiber-like solar cells
Fiber-like solar cells Xing Fan1, ... Besides materials exploration, micro optical structures, like micro-reflectors, wave-guide concentrators and hierarchic-al light harvesters, were also designed and integrated into fiber-like solar cells, which can effectively capture diffuse light from all directions and significantly enhance the maxim- um power output[14, 15]. In addition, to provide …
Fiber-optic solar energy transmission and concentration
A flexible fiber-optic light guide of 7 mm diameter and 3 m length has been built.This guide consists of 19 optical fibers. The input section of each 1.5 mm diameter optical fiber is polished to form a hexagonal column, as shown in Fig. 1 b. When the input columns of these polished fibers are joined together, a compact fiber-optic bundle is obtained, leaving no …