Everything about Solar cell efficiency

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Solar cell efficiencyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphologyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Complete idiot's guide to solar power for your homeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 filmsCited 26,937 times
5. Go sideways: Thin-film solar cellA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Solar cellA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

  Brian O'Regan, Michael Grätzel · 1991 · Nature · 26,937 citations

• Detailed Balance Limit of Efficiency of p-n Junction Solar Cells

  William Shockley, Hans J. Queisser · 1961 · Journal of Applied Physics · 12,774 citations

• Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites

  Michael M. Lee, Joël Teuscher, Tsutomu Miyasaka · 2012 · Science · 10,366 citations

• Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition

  Mingzhen Liu, Michael B. Johnston, Henry J. Snaith · 2013 · Nature · 7,721 citations

• Lead Iodide Perovskite Sensitized All-Solid-State Submicron Thin Film Mesoscopic Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 9%

  Hui-Seon Kim, Chang-Ryul Lee, Jeong-Hyeok Im · 2012 · Scientific Reports · 7,695 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

  Lei Zhu, Ming Zhang, Jinqiu Xu · 2022 · Nature Materials · 2,441 citations

• Inactive (PbI 2 ) 2 RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells

  Yang Zhao, Fei Ma, Zihan Qu · 2022 · Science · 1,475 citations

• Conformal quantum dot–SnO 2 layers as electron transporters for efficient perovskite solar cells

  Minjin Kim, Jaeki Jeong, Haizhou Lu · 2022 · Science · 1,354 citations

• Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

  Shuo Zhang, Fangyuan Ye, Xiaoyu Wang · 2023 · Science · 1,219 citations

• Surface reaction for efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells

  Qi Jiang, Jinhui Tong, Yeming Xian · 2022 · Nature · 1,182 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Complete idiot's guide to solar power for your homeDan Ramsey, David Hughes · 2002
• 📕Development of high-efficiency solar cells on silicon webDaniel L. Meier · 1986
• 📕An advanced photovoltaic array regulator moduleRobert M. Button · 1996
• 📕Process research in polycrystalline silicon material (PROPSM)Jerry Culik · 1983
• 📕Optimal design study of high efficiency indium phosphide space solar cellsRaj K. Jain · 1990
• 📕Manufacturing of high-efficiency bi-facial tandem concentrator solar cellsSteven Wojtczuk · 2011
• 📕Development of commercial technology for thin film silicon solor cells on glassNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) · 2013
• 📕Results of the 1983 NASA/JPL balloon flight solar cell calibration programR. G. Downing · 1984

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