Electrical passivation of III-V multijunction solar cells with luminescent coupling effect

BMY Jeco-Espaldon, R Tamaki, M Giteau, H Xu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Perimeter recombination is one of the causes identified for having a nonuniform luminescent
coupling effect in III-V multijunction solar cells. A potential solution could be the electrical …

Identification of surface and volume hot-carrier thermalization mechanisms in ultrathin GaAs layers

M Giteau, E de Moustier, D Suchet… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Hot-carrier solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest more energy than the limit set by the
Shockley–Queisser model by reducing the losses due to the thermalization of photo …

Optical map** of nonequilibrium charge carriers

ED Guarin Castro, A Pfenning… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We investigate the energy relaxation segmentation in a resonant tunneling heterostructure
by assessing the optical and transport dynamics of nonequilibrium charge carriers. The …

Comprehensive analysis of electron evaporative cooling in double-barrier semiconductor heterostructures

M Bescond, G Dangoisse, X Zhu, C Salhani… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Based on full quantum-transport simulations, we report a comprehensive study of the
evaporative cooling process in a double-barrier semiconductor heterostructure thermionic …

Evaporative electron cooling in asymmetric double barrier semiconductor heterostructures

A Yangui, M Bescond, T Yan, N Nagai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Rapid progress in high-speed, densely packed electronic/photonic devices has brought
unprecedented benefits to our society. However, this technology trend has in reverse led to …

Nonequilibrium theory of the conversion efficiency limit of solar cells including thermalization and extraction of carriers

K Kamide, T Mochizuki, H Akiyama, H Takato - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
The ideal solar-cell conversion efficiency limit known as the Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit,
which is based on a detailed balance between absorption and radiation, has long been a …

Lingering times at resonance: The case of Sb-based tunneling devices

EDG Castro, A Pfenning, F Hartmann… - ar**, and drifting
processes rule the semiconductor heterostructures' response to external drives when charge …

Detailed balance calculations for hot-carrier solar cells: coupling high absorptivity with low thermalization through light trap**

M Giteau, D Suchet, S Collin, JF Guillemoles… - EPJ Photovoltaics, 2019 - epj-pv.org
Hot-carrier solar cells could enable an efficiency gain compared to conventional cells,
provided that a high current can be achieved, together with a hot-carrier population …

Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics

TA Hamed, N Adamovic, U Aeberhard… - EPJ …, 2018 - epjpv.epj.org
Photovoltaics is amongst the most important technologies for renewable energy sources,
and plays a key role in the development of a society with a smaller environmental footprint …

Preliminary study of selective contacts for hot carrier solar cells

S Boyer-Richard, F Fan, N Chevalier, A Létoublon… - EPJ …, 2024 - epjpv.epj.org
Hot carrier solar cells are a concept of photovoltaic devices, which offers the opportunity to
harvest solar energy beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. Unlike conventional photovoltaic …