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Zhengrong Shi
Publications - 14
Citations - 719
Zhengrong Shi is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmonic solar cell & Silicon. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 681 citations.
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Broadband enhancement in thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells enabled by nucleated silver nanoparticles.
Xi Chen,Baohua Jia,Jhantu Kumar Saha,Boyuan Cai,Nicholas Stokes,Qi Qiao,Yongqian Wang,Zhengrong Shi,Min Gu +8 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes in this paper a novel idea of using nucleated silver nanoparticles to effectively scatter light in a broadband wavelength range to realize pronounced absorption enhancement in the silicon absorbing layer of plasmonic solar cells.
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Low cost and high performance Al nanoparticles for broadband light trapping in Si wafer solar cells
TL;DR: In this article, low cost and earth abundant Al nanoparticles are simulated and compared with noble metal nanoparticles Ag and Au for plasmonic light trapping in Si wafer solar cells.
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Nanoplasmonics: a frontier of photovoltaic solar cells
Min Gu,Zi Ouyang,Baohua Jia,Nicholas Stokes,Xi Chen,Narges F. Fahim,Xiangping Li,Michael James Ventura,Zhengrong Shi +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the recent progress of plasmonic solar cells including the fundamental mechanisms, material fabrication, theoretical modelling and emerging directions with a distinct emphasis on solutions tackling the above-mentioned challenges for industrial relevant applications.
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Improved multicrystalline Si solar cells by light trapping from Al nanoparticle enhanced antireflection coating
TL;DR: In this article, a significant photocurrent enhancement of 0.4 mA/cm2 has been achieved for industrial textured multicrystalline silicon solar cells, due to the light trapping provided by aluminium nanoparticle enhanced antireflection coating.
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Efficiency enhancement of screen-printed multicrystalline silicon solar cells by integrating gold nanoparticles via a dip coating process
TL;DR: In this paper, plasmonic nanoparticles of an optimized size, synthesized by the iterative seeding method, were integrated onto industrially available surface-textured multicrystalline silicon solar cells via a dip coating method.