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Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system (2020)
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Alzahrani, M., Roy, A., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021). Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 222, Article 110922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j

The concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system has a high potential in increasing the power output, propelling further the concentration ratio generating excessive heat that significantly deteriorates the solar cell efficiency and reliability. To thoroug... Read More about Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system.

Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells (2020)
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Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 4(12), 6283-6298. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se00782j

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged in a “catfish effect” of other established photovoltaic technologies with the rapid development of high-power conversion efficiency (PCE) and low-cost fabrication. Among various kinds of PSCs, organic hole t... Read More about Perceiving the temperature coefficients of carbon-based perovskite solar cells.

Emplacement of screen-printed graphene oxide coating for building thermal comfort discernment (2020)
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Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Benson, D., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Emplacement of screen-printed graphene oxide coating for building thermal comfort discernment. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 15578. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72670-8

This study demonstrates the development of flexible graphene oxide coatings (GOCs) by the screen-printed technique and further its implementation as a thermal absorber for buildings’ thermal comfort purpose. The basic concept consists the integration... Read More about Emplacement of screen-printed graphene oxide coating for building thermal comfort discernment.

Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films (2020)
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Khalid, M., Shanks, K., Ghosh, A., Tahir, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021). Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films. Renewable Energy, 164, 96-108. https://doi.org/10.

Low concentrating photovoltaic (LCPV) system has been studied extensively, which showed excellent potential for the building integration application. However, such a system suffers from higher operating temperatures due to the concentrated light expo... Read More about Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films.

Performance evaluation of single multi-junction solar cell for high concentrator photovoltaics using minichannel heat sink with nanofluids (2020)
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Ahmed, A., Zhang, G., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., Ding, Y., & Mallick, T. (2021). Performance evaluation of single multi-junction solar cell for high concentrator photovoltaics using minichannel heat sink with nanofluids. Applied Thermal Engineering, 182, A

High concentrated photovoltaic systems (HCPV) have demonstrated the potential to achieve high conversion power over conventional photovoltaic panels (PV) especially for areas with high solar irradiance. However, the multi-junction (MJ) solar cells ma... Read More about Performance evaluation of single multi-junction solar cell for high concentrator photovoltaics using minichannel heat sink with nanofluids.

Perovskite Solar Cells for BIPV Application: A Review (2020)
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Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Bhandari, S., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Perovskite Solar Cells for BIPV Application: A Review. Buildings, 10(7), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10070129

The rapid efficiency enhancement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) make it a promising photovoltaic (PV) research, which has now drawn attention from industries and government organizations to invest for further development of PSC technology. PSC tech... Read More about Perovskite Solar Cells for BIPV Application: A Review.

Effect of using an infrared filter on the performance of a silicon solar cell for an ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic system (2020)
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Ahmed, A., Alzahrani, M., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Effect of using an infrared filter on the performance of a silicon solar cell for an ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic system. Materials Letters, 277, Article 128332. https://

It is well known that increasing the concentration ratio of concentrator photovoltaics has a positive impact on the power output of the system but can reduce the solar cells performance due to the heightened temperatures. In this paper, we introduce... Read More about Effect of using an infrared filter on the performance of a silicon solar cell for an ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic system.

Effect of Nafion loading and the novel flow field designs on Innovative anode electrocatalyst for improved DMFCs performance (2020)
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Thanarajan, K., Velumani, T., Chandran, M., Karthikeyan, P., Thirkell, A., Fly, A., …Sundaram, S. (2020). Effect of Nafion loading and the novel flow field designs on Innovative anode electrocatalyst for improved DMFCs performance. Materials Letters, 27

Efficiency of a Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) not just merely depends on the catalyst, but also on the flow channels, physical/electrochemical kinetics, Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) preparation and other operating parameters. This article i... Read More about Effect of Nafion loading and the novel flow field designs on Innovative anode electrocatalyst for improved DMFCs performance.

Highly conductive double perovskite oxides A2LuTaO6 (A= Ba, Sr, Ca) as promising photoanode material for dye sensitized solar cells (2020)
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Sheikh, M. S., Roy, A., Bhandari, S., Mallick, T. K., Sundaram, S., & Sinha, T. (2020). Highly conductive double perovskite oxides A2LuTaO6 (A= Ba, Sr, Ca) as promising photoanode material for dye sensitized solar cells. Materials Letters, 276, Article 12

Poor electrical conductivity, interfacial charge carrier recombination, electrode degradation, etc., restrict practical implementation of the TiO2 based dye sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). In this respect, double perovskite oxides (DPOs) A2LuTaO6 (A... Read More about Highly conductive double perovskite oxides A2LuTaO6 (A= Ba, Sr, Ca) as promising photoanode material for dye sensitized solar cells.

Three dimensional analysis of dye-sensitized, perovskite and monocrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic cells under non uniform solar flux (2020)
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Singh, P., Khanna, S., Mudgal, V., Newar, S., Sharma, V., Sundaram, S., …Khusainov, R. (2021). Three dimensional analysis of dye-sensitized, perovskite and monocrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic cells under non uniform solar flux. Applied Thermal En

For low/high concentration, when the distribution of solar radiation is non-uniform over the surface of the solar cell, it gets heated up non-uniformly which affects the cell efficiency. Thus, in the present work, three dimensional analysis of the so... Read More about Three dimensional analysis of dye-sensitized, perovskite and monocrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic cells under non uniform solar flux.