Flower Power: Exploiting Plants' Epidermal Structures for Enhanced Light Harvesting in Thin‐Film Solar Cells

Abstract

Light-harvesting micro-/nanohierarchical structures replicated from plants' epidermal cells are exploited for photovoltaic applications. Their broadband and omnidirectional antireflection properties, together with their light-trapping capability, are analyzed experimentally. Power conversion efficiency gains are reported after integrating those replicas onto optimized state-of-the-art organic solar cells. The proposed approach can be applied to different plant species and photovoltaic technologies. As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors. Such materials are peer reviewed and may be re-organized for online delivery, but are not copy-edited or typeset. Technical support issues arising from supporting information (other than missing files) should be addressed to the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.