A review of third generation solar cells

N Shah, AA Shah, PK Leung, S Khan, K Sun, X Zhu… - Processes, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Third-generation solar cells are designed to achieve high power-conversion efficiency while
being low-cost to produce. These solar cells have the ability to surpass the Shockley …

Energy conversion approaches and materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics

MA Green, SP Bremner - Nature materials, 2017‏ - nature.com
The past five years have seen significant cost reductions in photovoltaics and a
correspondingly strong increase in uptake, with photovoltaics now positioned to provide one …

Radiative sky cooling: fundamental physics, materials, structures, and applications

X Sun, Y Sun, Z Zhou, MA Alam, P Bermel - Nanophotonics, 2017‏ - degruyter.com
Radiative sky cooling reduces the temperature of a system by promoting heat exchange with
the sky; its key advantage is that no input energy is required. We will review the origins of …

Hot carrier solar cells and the potential of perovskites for breaking the Shockley–Queisser limit

S Kahmann, MA Loi - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this review article, we discuss the working mechanism of hot carrier solar cells (HCSCs),
their prerequisites from a material point of view and consider power conversion efficiencies …

Carrier cooling in lead halide perovskites: a perspective on hot carrier solar cells

W Lin, SE Canton, K Zheng, T Pullerits - ACS Energy Letters, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The concept of hot carrier solar cells (HCSCs) has been proposed as a promising yet
elusive path toward high-performance photovoltaics (PV), capable of surpassing the …

Beyond 3rd generation solar cells and the full spectrum project. Recent advances and new emerging solar cells

BG Akinoglu, B Tuncel, V Badescu - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Solar cells have over 50-years of development history; many different devices and
technologies are studied over this time span, and interestingly it is still a hot research topic …

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 …

Theory of thermal relaxation of electrons in semiconductors

S Sadasivam, MKY Chan, P Darancet - Physical review letters, 2017‏ - APS
We compute the transient dynamics of phonons in contact with high energy “hot” charge
carriers in 12 polar and nonpolar semiconductors, using a first-principles Boltzmann …

Perovskite nanoparticles: synthesis, properties, and novel applications in photovoltaics and LEDs

SA Kulkarni, SG Mhaisalkar, N Mathews… - Small …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar cells and light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) based on metal‐halide perovskites are
transitioning from promising performers to direct competitors to well‐established …

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 …