Highly conductive semitransparent graphene sheets are combined with an n-type silicon (n-Si) wafer to fabricate solar cells with power conversion efficiencies up to 1.5% at AM 1.5 and an illumination intensity of 100 mW cm−2. The Schottky junction solar cells can be extended to other semiconducting materials in which graphene serves multiple functions as active junction layer, charge transport path, and transparent electrode.
Li et al. (Fri,) studied this question.