Everything about Electrical efficiency

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Electrical efficiencyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Silicon heterojunction solar cells with up to 26.81% efficiency achieved by electrically optimized nanocrystalline-silicon hole contact layersInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The human problems of an industrial civilizationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient CoreCited 5,897 times
5. Go sideways: Thermal efficiencyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Energy conversion efficiencyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

  Jun Yuan, Yunqiang Zhang, Liuyang Zhou · 2019 · Joule · 5,897 citations

• Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)–Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12 Percent Efficiency

  Aswani Yella, Hsuan-Wei Lee, Hoi Nok Tsao · 2011 · Science · 5,768 citations

• Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States

  Joseph P. Heremans, Vladimir Jovovic, Eric S. Toberer · 2008 · Science · 4,088 citations

• Overcoming the electroluminescence efficiency limitations of perovskite light-emitting diodes

  Himchan Cho, Su-Hun Jeong, Min-Ho Park · 2015 · Science · 2,895 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Silicon heterojunction solar cells with up to 26.81% efficiency achieved by electrically optimized nanocrystalline-silicon hole contact layers

  Hao Lin, Miao Yang, Xiaoning Ru · 2023 · Nature Energy · 680 citations

• Improving CO 2 -to-C 2+ Product Electroreduction Efficiency via Atomic Lanthanide Dopant-Induced Tensile-Strained CuO x Catalysts

  Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, Shoujie Liu · 2023 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 462 citations

• Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar‐Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

  Wei Gao, Feng Qi, Zhengxing Peng · 2022 · Advanced Materials · 456 citations

• Electroreduction of nitrogen with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency

  Hoang-Long Du, Manjunath Chatti, Rebecca Y. Hodgetts · 2022 · Nature · 452 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The human problems of an industrial civilizationElton Mayo · 1933
• 📕Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy SystemsF. Carl Knopf · 2011
• 📕U.S. electricity supply and demand--the northeastern regionUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · 1989
• Optimization of Industrial Unit ProcessesBéla G. Lipták · 2019
• Effectiveness, quality, and efficiencyEphraim F. Sudit · 1996
• Power plant performanceA. B. Gill · 1984
• 📕Laboratory model 50 kW hall thrusterDavid Manzella · 2002
• 📕Electric power reliabilityUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce · 1967

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