Hot carrier solar cells
- 1 January 1997
- proceedings article
- Published by AIP Publishing
- p. 309-316
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.53477
Abstract
We present our investigations of a novel concept for increasing the efficiency of solid state photovoltaic devices. We propose that hot photogenerated carriers can reduce radiative recombination in a p-i-n device structure that has an intrinsic superlattice absorption region. The reduced radiative recombination leads to higher photovoltage and conversion efficiency. We present experimental results on P-i(SL)-N devices fabricated from GaAs/AlGaAs, along with predictions of idealized hot carrier solar cell behavior obtained using a rigorous energy balance device model.Keywords
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