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Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window. In ISES SWC2019 / SHC2019 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.36.01

Electrically activated switchable glazing is potential to control excessive entering solar gain to an indoor space by altering its state from transparent to opaque or translucent. Electrically operated polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing... Read More about Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window.

The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shanks, K., Baig, H., Knowles, A., Brierley, A., Orr, H., Patel, J., Foster, N., Ball, S., Sun, Y., Wu, Y., Senthilarasu, S., & Mallick, T. (2018, August). The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB). Presented at 9th edition of the international SOLARIS conference, Chengdu, China

Embedded PV systems are required to help improve the synergy of renewable energy and smart buildings. A novel concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system embedded as a window for integration into buildings is presented. The system is made up of crossed co... Read More about The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB).

Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitchaiya, S., Natarajan, M., Santhanam, A., Asokan, V., Ramakrishnan, V., Palanichamy, P., Rangasamy, B., Sundaram, S., & Velauthapillai, D. (2019, February). Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application. Presented at AMCEHA 2019: Symposium on Solar Energy Applications, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Perovskite nanostructures have been prepared via electrospinning technique using polyvinyl alcohol and methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3 – perovskite). In the electrospinning experiment, the formation of different nanostructures was observed for... Read More about Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application.

Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitchaiya, S., Natarajan, M., Santhanam, A., Asokan, V., Ramakrishnan, V., Palanichamy, P., Rangasamy, B., Sundaram, S., Uthayaraj, S., & Velauthapillai, D. (2019, February). Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells. Presented at AMCEHA 2019: Symposium on Solar Energy Applications, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Herein, we report a novel and naturally extracted carbon based hole transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) synthesized using an eco-friendly and cost-effective ancient Indian method. Also in this work, the low-cost and bio-base... Read More about Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells.

Performance of WO3-incorporated carbon electrodes for ambient mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Performance of WO3-incorporated carbon electrodes for ambient mesoscopic perovskite solar cells. ACS Omega, 5(1), 422-429. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b02934

The stability of perovskite solar cells (PSC) is often compromised by the organic hole transport materials (HTMs). We report here the effect of WO3 as an inorganic HTM for carbon electrodes for improved stability in PSCs, which are made under ambient... Read More about Performance of WO3-incorporated carbon electrodes for ambient mesoscopic perovskite solar cells.

Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate (2019)
Journal Article
Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate. Solar Energy, 195, 536-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.084

Semi-transparent photovoltaic (PV) technology is attractive for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) due to its ability to lower the admitted solar heat gain, to control the penetrating daylight and to generate onsite benevolent direct current po... Read More about Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate.

Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing (2019)
Journal Article
Hemaida, A., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing. Solar Energy, 195, 185-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.024

A new class of smart window technologies are gaining interest as they have the functionality to control dynamic solar radiation, shading, ventilation and energy production. They are capable of improving buildings’ energy performance by adapting to di... Read More about Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing.

Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Alrashidi, H., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings. Energy and Buildings, 215, Article 109585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109585

Façade buildings are generally highly glazed and energy-intensive especially in countries with hot weather. Power consumption in these buildings is even more significant when air conditioning (AC) is added to the figures. Building with semi-transpare... Read More about Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings.

Numerical studies of thermal comfort for semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV)-vacuum glazing system (2019)
Journal Article
Ghosh, A., Sarmah, N., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Numerical studies of thermal comfort for semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV)-vacuum glazing system. Solar Energy, 190, 608-616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.08.049

Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV)-vacuum system is promising for advanced window application due to its ability to reduce heat transfer, control over admitted solar heat and generates environmentally benign electricity. In this work, numericall... Read More about Numerical studies of thermal comfort for semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV)-vacuum glazing system.

Color comfort evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) glazing after 2 years of ambient exposure (2019)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Ghosh, A., Bhandari, S., Selvaraj, P., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Color comfort evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) glazing after 2 years of ambient exposure. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(39), 23834-23837. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05591

Transmitted external daylight through semitransparent type building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) windows can alter the visible daylight spectrum and render different colors, which can have an impact on building’s occupants’ comfort. Color propertie... Read More about Color comfort evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) glazing after 2 years of ambient exposure.

Carbon counter electrode mesoscopic ambient processed & characterised perovskite for adaptive BIPV fenestration (2019)
Journal Article
Ghosh, A., Bhandari, S., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Carbon counter electrode mesoscopic ambient processed & characterised perovskite for adaptive BIPV fenestration. Renewable Energy, 145, 2151-2158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.119

In this work, carbon counter electrode perovskite was developed at the laboratory environment and building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) window application using this material was investigated. At 1 sun (1000 W/m2) continuous incident solar radiatio... Read More about Carbon counter electrode mesoscopic ambient processed & characterised perovskite for adaptive BIPV fenestration.

An experimental analysis of the optical, thermal and power to weight performance of plastic and glass optics with AR coatings for embedded CPV windows (2019)
Journal Article
Shanks, K., Knowles, A., Brierley, A., Baig, H., Orr, H., Sun, Y., Wu, Y., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. (2019). An experimental analysis of the optical, thermal and power to weight performance of plastic and glass optics with AR coatings for embedded CPV windows. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 200, Article 110027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110027

A low concentrator photovoltaic is presented and the optical losses within a double glazed window assembly are described. The use of plastic instead of glass is analyzed for its reduced weight and hence greater power to weight ratios. Although the tr... Read More about An experimental analysis of the optical, thermal and power to weight performance of plastic and glass optics with AR coatings for embedded CPV windows.

Enhanced efficiency of carbon-based mesoscopic perovskite solar cells through a tungsten oxide nanoparticle additive in the carbon electrode (2019)
Journal Article
Zhou, L., Zuo, Y., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Enhanced efficiency of carbon-based mesoscopic perovskite solar cells through a tungsten oxide nanoparticle additive in the carbon electrode. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 8778. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45374-x

This paper presents perovskite solar cells employed with WO3 nanoparticles embedded carbon top electrode. WO3 nanoparticles works as an inorganic hole-transport material (HTM) to promote the hole-extraction in the perovskite/carbon interface as revea... Read More about Enhanced efficiency of carbon-based mesoscopic perovskite solar cells through a tungsten oxide nanoparticle additive in the carbon electrode.

Use of Nanofluids in Solar PV/Thermal Systems (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Baig, H., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Use of Nanofluids in Solar PV/Thermal Systems. International Journal of Photoenergy, 2019, Article 8039129. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8039129

The continuous growth in the energy demand across the globe due to the booming population, in addition to the harmful effects of the fossil fuels on the environment, has made it essential to harness renewable energy via different technologies and con... Read More about Use of Nanofluids in Solar PV/Thermal Systems.

Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Liu, D., Flor, J., Shank, K., Baig, H., Wilson, R., …Wu, Y. (2020). Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems. Renewable Energy, 145, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.061

Integrating photovoltaics into windows provides the possibility of including an additional function of energy production to a conventional building fenestration component. There is no doubt that electrical power can be generated on-site. However, the... Read More about Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems.

Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics (2019)
Journal Article
Day, J., Senthilarasu, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 199, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.04.013

A major challenge facing silicon solar cells used in building-integrated concentrator photovoltaics (BICPV) is their reduced electrical response when exposed to light of short or long wavelengths. In an attempt to tackle this problem, single cell sta... Read More about Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics.

Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Das, P. P., Selvaraj, P., Devi, P. S., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 380, Article 111824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.04.035

Mesoporous transparent conducting oxide, CdSnO3 has been synthesized using ultrasonication assisted co-precipitation method. Rather employing any template or structure directing agent, the co-precipitation effect of sodium hydroxide and citric acid w... Read More about Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells.

Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration (2019)
Journal Article
Selvaraj, P., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration. Renewable Energy, 141, 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.03.146

For any particular location glazing transmission varies with season and time of day. Thus, glazing transmission angular behaviour is more crucial than single glazing transmittance value for building energy simulation and design. In this work, the spe... Read More about Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration.

An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system (2019)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Khanna, S., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2019). An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system. Journal of Energy Storage, 23, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.03.010

The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the melting characteristics of a PCM cylindrical thermal storage system using experimental and numerical approaches. Three inclination positions are considered from vertical to horizontal. Paraf... Read More about An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system.

Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Shanks, K., Baig, H., Zhang, W., Hao, X., Li, Y., He, B., Wilson, R., Liu, H., Sundaram, S., Zhang, J., Xie, L., Mallic, T., & Wu, Y. (2019). Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio. Energy Procedia, 158, 3014-3019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.976

When integrated photovoltaics into building windows, the solar cells will absorb a fraction of solar radiation that hit on the window surface to generate electrical power and thus obstruct the solar energy and natural daylight that would have penetra... Read More about Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio.

Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials (2019)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Shanks, K., Khanna, S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials. Materials Letters, 241, 219-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.01.129

In concentrating photovoltaic (CPV), increasing the incoming sunlight to the solar cell influences the performance of the solar cells. The optical efficiency of the CPV components is a key factor to improve the electrical efficiency. Two types of hom... Read More about Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials.

Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Sambathkumar, S., Priyadharshini, S., Fleisch, M., Bahnemann, D., Kumar, G. G., Senthilarasu, S., & Renganathan, R. (2019). Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells. Materials Letters, 242, 28-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.01.091

Two imidazole – triphenylamine based organic dyes (SD1 and SD2) configured with donor -donor-π-acceptor (D2-π-A) structures with reported dye material namely TPA B5 were synthesized using different acceptor units and characterized by various spectros... Read More about Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells.

Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Devi, P. S., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Omega, 4(1), 1130-1138. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02628

In this paper, dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance of the less explored polymorph of TiO2, rutile, has been explored, and its performance has been modified with polyaniline (PANI) wrapping on the surface. For this purpose, highly crystalline... Read More about Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells.