Observation of infrared absorption of InAs quantum dot structures in AlGaAs matrix toward high-efficiency solar cells
| Autor: | Satoshi Iwamoto, Teruhisa Kotani, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Yasuhiko Arakawa, Makoto Izumi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010302 applied physics
Waveguide (electromagnetism) Materials science Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Band gap business.industry Shockley–Queisser limit General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy Infrared spectroscopy 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Matrix (mathematics) Absorption edge Quantum dot 0103 physical sciences Optoelectronics 0210 nano-technology Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) business |
| Zdroj: | Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 57:062001 |
| ISSN: | 1347-4065 0021-4922 |
| DOI: | 10.7567/jjap.57.062001 |
| Popis: | In accordance with the detailed balance limit model of single-intermediate-band solar cells (IBSCs), the optimum matrix bandgap and IB–conduction band (CB) energy gap are ~1.9 and 0.7 eV, respectively. We present the room-temperature polarized infrared absorption of 20 stacked InAs quantum dot (QD) structures in the Al0.32Ga0.68As matrix with a bandgap of ~1.9 eV for the design of high-efficiency IBSCs by using a multipass waveguide geometry. We find that the IB–CB absorption is almost independent of the light polarization, and estimate the magnitude of the absorption per QD layer to be ~0.01%. We also find that the IB–CB absorption edge of QD structures with a wide-gap matrix is ~0.41 eV. These results indicate that both the significant increase in the magnitude of IB–CB absorption and the lower energy of the IB state for the higher IB–CB energy gap are necessary toward the realization of high-efficiency IBSCs. |
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