Advanced Materials, Vol.27, No.5, 849-855, 2015
Graphenized Carbon Nanofiber: A Novel Light-Trapping and Conductive Material to Achieve an Efficiency Breakthrough in Silicon Solar Cells
An innovative 1D material-graphenized carbon nanofiber-is designed and synthesized. The nanofiber exhibits superior light-scattering properties, ultralow absorption loss, and high electrical conductivity, and enables a wide range of applications. Simply integrating the nanofibers with the state-of-the-art silicon solar cells leads to a leaping efficiency boost of 3.8%, almost five times higher than the current world record.