Nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion
By P. Oelhafen, A. Schüler. 2005
394 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract This review article deals with the motivation for using nanostructured materials in the field of solar energy conversion. We discuss briefly some recent fundamental observations on supported nanoclusters and optical properties of embedded metallic nanoclusters in a dielectric matrix. An overview on current research and existing applications in this field is given. Nanocomposite thin films developed for the application as optically selective absorber coatings in thermal solar collectors are described in some more detail. These coatings are based on transition metal containing amorphous hydrogenated carbon films (a-C:H/TM) or on transition metal containing silicon–carbon films (a-Si:C:H/TM) produced by a combined PVD/PECVD process.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/511e14353b4f76031e89390c6a6aea7a910c9dc2
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Materials Chemistry
In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Citations in the corpus
- Developments in the synthesis of flat plate solar selective absorber materials via sol–gel methods: A review (2014, background): “As such, there is a need to optimize the optical and structural properties of a surface through the use of a combination of materials, the modification of the surface, or the synthesis of multilayer solar absorber materials to achieve the desired wavelength selectivity [8,9].”
- Recent improvements in dye sensitized solar cells: A review (2015, background): “carbon nano-tubes, graphene or graphene nano-plates) are potential substitutes as these materials have good electric conductivity and high surface area [18,19].”