Tunable photovoltaics: adapting solar cell technologies to versatile applications

…, U Banik, N Osterthun, O Sergeev… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar photovoltaics (PV) offer viable and sustainable solutions to satisfy the growing energy
demand and to meet the pressing climate targets. The deployment of conventional PV …

Efficient thin polymer coating as a selective thermal emitter for passive daytime radiative cooling

…, A Agrawal, H Meddeb, O Sergeev… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Radiative cooling to subambient temperatures can be efficiently achieved through spectrally
selective emission, which until now has only been realized by using complex …

Energy-free machine learning force field for aluminum

I Kruglov, O Sergeev, A Yanilkin, AR Oganov - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We used the machine learning technique of Li et al. (PRL 114, 2015) for molecular dynamics
simulations. Atomic configurations were described by feature matrix based on internal …

The peculiar alterations of the optical and mechanical characteristics of the quartz glass plates with a reinforcing coating under the collision with a hyper-velocity flux of …

VP Sergeev, RB Tursunkhanova, MP Kalashnikov… - Acta Astronautica, 2024 - Elsevier
This article experimentally investigates the collision of a high-velocity (5–8 km/s) flux of iron
microparticles with quartz-glass plates and the effect of such collisions on the optical and …

Rational design of highly efficient flexible and transparent p-type composite electrode based on single-walled carbon nanotubes

PM Rajanna, H Meddeb, O Sergeev, AP Tsapenko… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Transparent electrodes are of great importance in electronics and energy technologies. At
present, transparent conductive oxides are mainly n-type conductors dominating the market …

ITO-free inverted polymer solar cells with ZnO: Al cathodes and stable top anodes

A De Sio, K Chakanga, O Sergeev… - Solar energy materials …, 2012 - Elsevier
We report on the application of ZnO:Al as the transparent conductive oxide in high performance
inverted polymer solar cells. We show that the optimized inverted architecture, which …

DC‐sputtered ZnO: Al as transparent conductive oxide for silicon heterojunction solar cells with µc‐Si: H emitter

…, S Geissendoerfer, O Sergeev… - Progress in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells are highly interesting, because of their high efficiency
and low cost fabrication. So far, the most applied transparent conductive oxide (TCO) is …

Quantum confinement-tunable solar cell based on ultrathin amorphous germanium

H Meddeb, N Osterthun, M Götz, O Sergeev, K Gehrke… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoscale semiconductors involve distinct fundamental phenomena and novel properties
emerge due to dimensional restriction of the charge carriers’ motion, known as quantum …

ZnO nanorod arrays as light trapping structures in amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells

RE Nowak, M Vehse, O Sergeev, K von Maydell… - Solar energy materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
The implementation of electrochemically deposited zinc oxide nanorod arrays is a promising
and cost-effective concept for the improvement of photovoltaic devices. The aim of this …

ZnO Nanorods with Broadband Antireflective Properties for Improved Light Management in Silicon Thin‐Film Solar Cells

RE Nowak, M Vehse, O Sergeev, T Voss… - Advanced Optical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc oxide nanorod structures constitute a promising concept to improve light management
in photovoltaic devices. This paper reports on the antireflective properties of zinc oxide …