[HTML][HTML] Third-generation photovoltaics

G Conibeer - Materials today, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Third-generation approaches to photovoltaics (PVs) aim to achieve high-efficiency devices
but still use thin-film, second-generation deposition methods. The concept is to do this with …

Review of the mechanisms for the phonon bottleneck effect in III–V semiconductors and their application for efficient hot carrier solar cells

Y Zhang, G Conibeer, S Liu, J Zhang… - Progress in …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The hot carrier solar cell aims to significantly boost the power conversion efficiency through
fully utilizing the carrier thermalization energy loss. To realize such ultraefficient solar cells, it …

Sb2S3 solar cells

R Kondrotas, C Chen, J Tang - Joule, 2018‏ - cell.com
Power generated from sustainable and environmentally benign solar cell technologies is
one of the key aspects in the development of clean renewable energy. Earth-abundant and …

[ספר][B] Solar Energy: The physics and engineering of photovoltaic conversion, technologies and systems

A Smets, K Jäger, O Isabella, R Van Swaaij, M Zeman - 2016‏ - books.google.com
This book provides a broad overview on the different aspects of solar energy, with a focus on
photovoltaics, which is the technology that allows light energy to be converted into electric …

A review on thermalization mechanisms and prospect absorber materials for the hot carrier solar cells

Y Zhang, X Jia, S Liu, B Zhang, K Lin, J Zhang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The hot carrier solar cells (HCSCs) is one of the most promising advanced concept solar
cells. It aims to prevent or reduce the dominant energy loss from hot carrier thermalization …

Exploiting intervalley scattering to harness hot carriers in III–V solar cells

H Esmaielpour, KR Dorman, DK Ferry, TD Mishima… - Nature Energy, 2020‏ - nature.com
Hot carrier solar cells offer the potential to exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit. So far,
however, there has been no clear route to achieve this result. Recently, the exploitation of …

Hot-carrier optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor nanowires

J Fast, U Aeberhard, SP Bremner, H Linke - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
In optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and photodetectors, a portion of electron-hole
pairs is generated as so-called hot carriers with an excess kinetic energy that is typically lost …

Hot electron relaxation dynamics in semiconductors: assessing the strength of the electron–phonon coupling from the theoretical and experimental viewpoints

J Sjakste, K Tanimura, G Barbarino… - Journal of Physics …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the computational methods based on density functional theory, on
the one hand, and of time-, energy-, and momentum-resolved spectroscopy, on the other …

Unraveling electron dynamics in p-type indium phosphide (100): a time-resolved two-photon photoemission study

J Diederich, J Velasquez Rojas… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Renewable (“green”) hydrogen production through direct photoelectrochemical (PEC) water
splitting is a potential key contributor to the sustainable energy mix of the future. We …

Hot carrier solar cell absorber prerequisites and candidate material systems

G Conibeer, S Shrestha, S Huang, R Patterson… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The hot carrier cell aims to extract the electrical energy from photo-generated carriers before
they thermalise to the band edges. Hence it can potentially achieve a high current and a …