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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Brief Historical Perspective and Uses in Multijunction Devices

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Development of Solar Cells

Part of the book series: Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics ((COCH,volume 32))

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A brief history of the development of solar-to-electric devices is discussed for the classically researched solar cell technologies including Si, CIGS, CdTe, GaAs, OPV, DSC, and PSC devices. Relative strengths and weaknesses of these technologies are presented along with the importance of multijunction system research toward higher efficiency solar-to-electric systems. The combining of DSCs with each technology is discussed along with potential directions for designing next generation multijunction systems.

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Acknowledgements

That authors acknowledge support from the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences program for grant DE-SC0019131 which supported background literature research with relation to the high-voltage systems reported herein. The authors also acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation for grant 1954922 which supported background literature research with relation to the narrow energy gap systems reported herein.

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Daniel, A., Delcamp, J.H. (2021). Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Brief Historical Perspective and Uses in Multijunction Devices. In: Roy, J.K., Kar, S., Leszczynski, J. (eds) Development of Solar Cells. Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69445-6_4

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