Coatings in Photovoltaic Solar Energy Worldwide Research

Nuria Novas,Dalia El Khaled,Alfredo Alcayde,Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro

doi:10.3390/coatings9120797

Abstract

This paper describes the characteristics of contributions that were made by researchers worldwide in the field of Solar Coating in the period 1957–2019. Scopus is used as a database and the results are processed while using bibliometric and analytical techniques. All of the documents registered in Scopus, a total of 6440 documents, have been analyzed and distributed according to thematic subcategories. Publications are analyzed from the type of publication, field of use, language, subcategory, type of newspaper, and the frequency of the keyword perspectives. English (96.8%) is the language that is most used for publications, followed by Chinese (2.6%), and the rest of the languages have a less than < 1% representation. Publications are studied by authors, affiliations, countries of origin of the authors, and H-index, which it stands out that the authors of China contribute with 3345 researchers, closely followed by the United States with 2634 and Germany with 1156. The Asian continent contributes the most, with 65% of the top 20 affiliations, and Taiwan having the most authors publishing in this subject, closely followed by Switzerland. It can be stated that research in this area is still evolving with a great international scientific contribution in improving the efficiency of solar cells.

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Energy needs are a global growing problem in the era of technology
Theoretical calculations suggest that the efficiency increases the accumulation of absorption of light in nanostructured devices, the results show that they are still inferior to the highest reported conventional organic photovoltaic cells, which implies that further research in this field must be carried out to obtain thinner layers of photoactive material that improve the performance
This work has revealed data related to Solar Coating from 1957 to 2019

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Introduction

Energy needs are a global growing problem in the era of technology. Citizens and governments are gradually becoming aware of the sustainable use of world resources [1]. Many are the developments in energy systems based on renewable energy, such as wind, photovoltaic, biomass, nuclear, etc., implemented on both a small and high scale. Renewable energy resources largely depend on the climate of the site; different renewable energies could be applied in different regions. Photovoltaic applications are very diverse, and they range from the incorporation into consumer products, such as watches, calculators, battery chargers, and a multitude of products from the leisure industry. They can be applied in small-scale systems, like remote installations in structures, called solar gardens, or systems applied to the industrial and domestic facilities for small villages and water pumping stations. Energy policies play an important role in the development of renewable energy [5,6]

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