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Engineering nanoarchitectures for high performance solar cells

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Abstract Inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials are exploited for the solar energy conversion for the past few decades and astonishing efficiency records are achieved through various device architectures. Interesting morphologies such as nanospheres, nanorods, nanoplates, nanowires, nanotubes, and hierarchy nanostructures are delivering promising results and contributing high efficiency in various kinds of modern generation solar cells. These architectures are obtained by different synthesis approaches in which all the dimensions of the materials could perfectly be tuned through optimized physical parameters. Contributions of these architectures to long term-stability, good carrier transport and durable performance to all kinds of solar cells are really appreciable. Engineering such architectures with suitable methods to improve the performance of solar cells still giving exemplary results and hence analyzing such activities has to be accounted. This chapter summarizes various nanoarchitectures employed for the development of modern generation solar cells and their efficiency improvement using potential engineering strategies.