Recent advances in solar cells based on one-dimensional nanostructure arrays
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 4 (9), 2783-2796
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c2nr30437f
Abstract
As the demand for renewable energy resource is growing rapidly worldwide, a variety of energy materials and technologies are being developed. In this review, we aim to summarize recent developments in the state-of-the-art research on energy harvesting technologies such as thin-film Si or Ge, CdTe, GaAs, organic, hybrid, and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) utilizing one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, mainly semiconductor nanowires, nanocones, nanotubes and nanofibers, which are prepared by vapor–liquid–solid method, colloidal lithography, template-guided growth, or electrospinning. Moreover, the future challenges (such as efficiency improvement and natural resource limitations) and prospects of nanostructured solar cells are proposed.This publication has 101 references indexed in Scilit:
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