Optical Electronics and Solar Energy Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2024) | Viewed by 1007
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials science; nanotechnology; nanophotonics; quantum materials; electrical engineering; optoelectronic applications; renewable energies; solar energy; energy conversion; photovoltaics; thermal sciences; heat transfer; radiative cooling; photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion; system integration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Economic development and worldwide urbanization necessitate a continuous rise of the global energy consumption across all key sectors including power, heating, industry, and transport. However, a transition to long-term sustainability in the global energy systems is required to mitigate the environmental risks of greenhouse gas emissions leading to planetary climate change and global warming. The sun is vital for living and non-living organisms on Earth, providing light, heat and energy.
To enable modern sustainable living, these solar characteristics can be better controlled and exploited owing to the scientific and technological progress in different fields like materials science, optics, photonics, and electronics.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances in solar energy technologies based on photonic and optoelectronic concepts for supplying real-world systems in versatile applications. This covers diverse functionalities including power generation, energy conversion and thermal management.
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with your high quality manuscripts, sending full papers, reviews, and communications addressing the design, fabrication, characterization, and modeling of novel photonic structures and optoelectronic devices for renewable solar energy applications.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Novel photonic and optoelectronic devices for energy conversion, harvesting and saving;
- Organic and inorganic photovoltaics including emerging transparent and multijunction solar cell technologies;
- Dynamic tuning of transparency and colors in switchable solar cells;
- Integrated photovoltaics in different sectors like buildings, vehicles, agriculture, marine and aerospace;
- Development and assessment of concentrated solar thermal systems;
- Multispectral designs for photonic thermal management and passive radiative cooling;
- Switchable solar heating and cooling technologies with dynamic and adaptive thermal radiation-modulation;
- Solar-driven photoelectrochemical artificial photosynthesis and water splitting for hydrogen generation.
Dr. Hosni Meddeb
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- optoelectronic devices and applications
- renewable and sustainable energies
- organic and inorganic photovoltaics
- integrated photovoltaics
- concentrated solar thermal
- solar energy technologies
- solar electricity
- solar heating and cooling
- artificial photosynthesis
- solar hydrogen generation
