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With the rising population and simultaneous increasing demand for energy to run the current lifestyle, there is an immense requirement to develop a method to sustain the non-renewable source of energy, solar cell is one of them. In the current book chapter, we aim to study the fabrication and characterization of SiNW’s hybrid solar cells. A hybrid solar cell consists of both organic and inorganic materials. In this book chapter, we have studied the methods to prepare SiNWs, reduced graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide P Poly (3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) Polystyrene Sulfonate composite for their application in the SiNWs hybrid solar cell. The morphological analysis of the samples has been done using scanning electron microscopy, and structural characterization of the samples was done using X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Finally, the electrical characterization of the solar cells has been studied using the current-density voltage characteristic curves. This book chapter also provides the readers to understand of the fundamentals of a basic solar cell and the way to fabricate a hybrid solar cell most efficiently.
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Bhujel, R., Rai, S., Swain, B.P. (2023). Fabrication and Characterization of Silicon Nanowire Hybrid Solar Cells. In: Swain, B.P. (eds) Energy Materials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3866-7_5
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