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Solar Light Harvesting with Nanocrystalline Semiconductors pp 161–240Cite as

Semiconductor-Based Liquid-Junction Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells

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The photoelectrochemical light-harvesting systems constitute an important part of the assay of available solar light conversion approaches, along with the photovoltaic light conversion and endothermal photochemical reactions such as the hydrogen production, CO2 reduction, etc. [1–12]. Today, the realm of semiconductor-based solar cells is dominated (up to 85%) by “classic” photovoltaic systems based on single-crystal and polycrystalline silicon with a light conversion efficiency reaching 14–19 and 8–10%, respectively [2, 4, 12]. At the same time, a high price of the single-crystalline Si stimulates a search for alternative technologies based on more available materials, such as amorphous silicon, thin-film CdTe-based heterostructures [2, 12], organic conjugated polymers [2, 13–15], liquid-junction solar cells [2, 4–11], etc.

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Stroyuk, O. (2018). Semiconductor-Based Liquid-Junction Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells. In: Solar Light Harvesting with Nanocrystalline Semiconductors. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 99. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68879-4_4

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