Electronic and thermal transport in hot carrier solar cells with low-dimensional contacts

Autor:	T. E. Humphrey, Roger A Lewis, Chao Zhang, M. F. O'Dwyer
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Theory of solar cells Materials science business.industry General Engineering Electron Radiation law.invention Multiple exciton generation Optics Solar cell efficiency Thermal radiation law Thermal Solar cell Optoelectronics Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics business
Zdroj:	Microelectronics Journal. 39:656-659
ISSN:	0026-2692
DOI:	10.1016/j.mejo.2007.07.062
Popis:	Hot carrier solar cells are a third generation solar cell device where electrons and holes, heated by solar radiation, are removed from the absorber via low-dimensional energy selective contacts before they can thermalise to the band edge. Here, a new model is presented for calculating the performance of these devices, which takes into account the energy spectrum of the contacts. It is shown that efficiency is maximised with a certain ideal number of contacts and that the energy spectra of these should be narrow.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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