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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.

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.

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.

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.

Incorporating solution-processed mesoporous WO3 as an interfacial cathode buffer layer for photovoltaic applications (2020)
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Roy, A., Bhandari, S., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Incorporating solution-processed mesoporous WO3 as an interfacial cathode buffer layer for photovoltaic applications. Scientific Reports, 124(28), 5709-5719. https://doi.org/10.1021/

Dextran-templating hydrothermal synthesis of monoclinic WO3 exhibits excellent specific surface area of ∼110 m2/g and a monomodal pore distribution with an average pore diameter of ∼20 nm. Dextran plays a crucial role in generating porosity on WO3. T... Read More about Incorporating solution-processed mesoporous WO3 as an interfacial cathode buffer layer for photovoltaic applications.

Optical losses and durability of flawed Fresnel lenses for concentrated photovoltaic application (2020)
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Alzahrani, M., Ahmed, A., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. (2020). Optical losses and durability of flawed Fresnel lenses for concentrated photovoltaic application. Materials Letters, 275, Article 128145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.12814

Recycling optical devices and materials for solar concentrator devices is a relatively unstudied area but one which is likely to grow in importance as we progress towards an increasingly sustainable and minimum waste environment. As such, considerati... Read More about Optical losses and durability of flawed Fresnel lenses for concentrated photovoltaic application.

Realization of poly (methyl methacrylate)-encapsulated solution-processed carbon-based solar cells: An emerging candidate for buildings’ comfort (2020)
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Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Bhandari, S., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Realization of poly (methyl methacrylate)-encapsulated solution-processed carbon-based solar cells: An emerging candidate for buildings’ comfort. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry

The self-assembling characteristics allow carbon nanomaterials to be readily explored, environmentally benign, solution-processed, low-cost, and efficient solar light-harvesting materials. An effort has been made to replace the regular photovoltaic d... Read More about Realization of poly (methyl methacrylate)-encapsulated solution-processed carbon-based solar cells: An emerging candidate for buildings’ comfort.

Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4 (2020)
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Mamedov, D., Yakubov, K., Bazarbaev, R., Ismailov, K., Senthilarasu, S., & Karazhanov, S. Z. (2020). Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4. Materials Today: Proceedings, 33(6), 2495-2498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020

This paper presents a study related to methods of estimation of the band gap for kesterite-type Cu2ZnSnS(Se)4 based on their electronic structure and optical properties driven by the first-principles calculations within the hybrid functional. The est... Read More about Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4.

Perovskite Solar Cells: A Porous Graphitic Carbon based Hole Transporter/Counter Electrode Material Extracted from an Invasive Plant Species Eichhornia Crassipes (2020)
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Pitchaiya, S., Eswaramoorthy, N., Natarajan, M., Santhanam, A., Asokan, V., Madurai Ramakrishnan, V., …Velauthapillai, D. (2020). Perovskite Solar Cells: A Porous Graphitic Carbon based Hole Transporter/Counter Electrode Material Extracted from an Invas

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) composed of organic polymer-based hole-transporting materials (HTMs) are considered to be an important strategy in improving the device performance, to compete with conventional solar cells. Yet the use of such expensive... Read More about Perovskite Solar Cells: A Porous Graphitic Carbon based Hole Transporter/Counter Electrode Material Extracted from an Invasive Plant Species Eichhornia Crassipes.

An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material (2020)
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Chanchangi, Y. N., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material. Solar Energy, 203, 46-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2

Photovoltaic technology penetration is experiencing noticeable progress. However, its performance is significantly affected by soiling, which is influenced by several factors such as site characteristics, weather, tilt angle and surface orientation,... Read More about An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material.

Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation (2020)
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Devaraj, E., Joseph, P. K., Karuppa Raj Rajagopal, T., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation. Energies, 13(8), Article 1944. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13081944

Energy transformation by power electronic converters is not feasible without the efficient use of renewable energy. The article tries to extend the use of renewable energy to PHEV battery charging. In PHEV, the battery is one of the major sources of... Read More about Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation.

Theoretical Investigation of the Temperature Limits of an Actively Cooled High Concentration Photovoltaic System (2020)
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Ahmed, A., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Theoretical Investigation of the Temperature Limits of an Actively Cooled High Concentration Photovoltaic System. Energies, 13(8), Article 1902. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13081902

Concentrator photovoltaics have several advantages over flat plate systems. However, the increase in solar concentration usually leads to an increase in the solar cell temperature, which decreases the performance of the system. Therefore, in this pap... Read More about Theoretical Investigation of the Temperature Limits of an Actively Cooled High Concentration Photovoltaic System.

Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink (2020)
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Al Siyabi, I., Shanks, K., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink. Solar Energy, 202, 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.03.101

Concentrating Photovoltaic technology is a promising option in power generation using the photovoltaics compared to the conventional flat PV system. This study investigates the performance of a high concentrated photovoltaic single solar cell module... Read More about Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink.

Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI) (2020)
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Roy, A., Velusamy, S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI). Materials Letters, 270, 127734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.127734

Thiourea assisted hydrothermal preparation of nanoflower-like CdS (NFs) synthesis and its efficient performance to remove toxic Cr (VI) in aqueous solution has been reported in this article. CdS NFs show synergistic behaviour via photo-catalytic redu... Read More about Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI).