Micro-cable structured textile for simultaneously harvesting solar and mechanical energy

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Related collections

Most cited references 37

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Progress in triboelectric nanogenerators as a new energy technology and self-powered sensors

Zhong Wang, Jun Chen, Long Lin (2015)

A review on the principles, novel applications and perspectives of triboelectric nanogenerators as power sources and as self-powered sensors.

0 comments Cited 663 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells.

Wendy U Huynh, Janke J Dittmer, A Paul Alivisatos (2002)

We demonstrate that semiconductor nanorods can be used to fabricate readily processed and efficient hybrid solar cells together with polymers. By controlling nanorod length, we can change the distance on which electrons are transported directly through the thin film device. Tuning the band gap by altering the nanorod radius enabled us to optimize the overlap between the absorption spectrum of the cell and the solar emission spectrum. A photovoltaic device consisting of 7-nanometer by 60-nanometer CdSe nanorods and the conjugated polymer poly-3(hexylthiophene) was assembled from solution with an external quantum efficiency of over 54% and a monochromatic power conversion efficiency of 6.9% under 0.1 milliwatt per square centimeter illumination at 515 nanometers. Under Air Mass (A.M.) 1.5 Global solar conditions, we obtained a power conversion efficiency of 1.7%.

0 comments Cited 649 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources.

Bozhi Tian, Xiaolin Zheng, Thomas Kempa … (2007)

Solar cells are attractive candidates for clean and renewable power; with miniaturization, they might also serve as integrated power sources for nanoelectronic systems. The use of nanostructures or nanostructured materials represents a general approach to reduce both cost and size and to improve efficiency in photovoltaics. Nanoparticles, nanorods and nanowires have been used to improve charge collection efficiency in polymer-blend and dye-sensitized solar cells, to demonstrate carrier multiplication, and to enable low-temperature processing of photovoltaic devices. Moreover, recent theoretical studies have indicated that coaxial nanowire structures could improve carrier collection and overall efficiency with respect to single-crystal bulk semiconductors of the same materials. However, solar cells based on hybrid nanoarchitectures suffer from relatively low efficiencies and poor stabilities. In addition, previous studies have not yet addressed their use as photovoltaic power elements in nanoelectronics. Here we report the realization of p-type/intrinsic/n-type (p-i-n) coaxial silicon nanowire solar cells. Under one solar equivalent (1-sun) illumination, the p-i-n silicon nanowire elements yield a maximum power output of up to 200 pW per nanowire device and an apparent energy conversion efficiency of up to 3.4 per cent, with stable and improved efficiencies achievable at high-flux illuminations. Furthermore, we show that individual and interconnected silicon nanowire photovoltaic elements can serve as robust power sources to drive functional nanoelectronic sensors and logic gates. These coaxial silicon nanowire photovoltaic elements provide a new nanoscale test bed for studies of photoinduced energy/charge transport and artificial photosynthesis, and might find general usage as elements for powering ultralow-power electronics and diverse nanosystems.

0 comments Cited 534 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

All references

Author and article information

Journal

Title: Nature Energy

Abbreviated Title: Nat. Energy

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISSN (Electronic): 2058-7546

Publication date Created: September 12 2016

Publication date (Print): September 12 2016

Volume: 1

Issue: 10

Page: 16138

Article

DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.138

SO-VID: 45e1ede6-c1ba-43cc-bbb6-07fdd30563d0

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Smart Citations

Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting

View Citations

See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.