Prospects of Solar Cell Technology From Silicon to Carbon Nanotube

Abstract

Solar cell is becoming one of the vibrant power generations among all the renewable energy resources and demanding the most attention of researchers to achieve the goal of increasing stability and efficiencies. To reinforce the advancement of the solar cell, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have come out as a highly potential candidate due to the reasons of chirality, mean free path, conductivity, current density, etc. The CNT has a unique size, structure, and attractive characteristics which enable the bold concept of getting maximum power from a solar cell. The recent availability of the CNT in quantities and formats amenable opens a new window to improve the efficiency of the solar cell. This paper will present a prospect of the recent research about CNTs and their contribution as a potential material in solar cell technology.