Material challenges for solar cells in the twenty-first century: directions in emerging technologies

S Almosni, A Delamarre, Z Jehl, D Suchet… - … and Technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Photovoltaic generation has stepped up within the last decade from outsider status to one of
the important contributors of the ongoing energy transition, with about 1.7% of world …

Light emitting devices based on quantum well-dots

MV Maximov, AM Nadtochiy, SA Mintairov… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review epitaxial formation, basic properties, and device applications of a novel type of
nanostructures of mixed (0D/2D) dimensionality that we refer to as quantum well-dots …

High efficiency inverted GaAs and GaInP/GaAs solar cells with strain‐balanced GaInAs/GaAsP quantum wells

MA Steiner, RM France, J Buencuerpo… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐efficiency solar cells are essential for high‐density terrestrial applications, as well as
space and potentially vehicle applications. The optimum bandgap for the terrestrial spectrum …

Quantum well solar cells: principles, recent progress, and potential

I Sayed, SM Bedair - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum well solar cells, as a promising approach for next-generation photovoltaic
technology, have received great attention in the last few years. Recent developments in …

Growth optimization of quantum-well-enhanced multijunction photovoltaics

S Polly, B Bogner, A Fedorenko, N Pokharel… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2023 - cell.com
III-V materials enable the highest reported power conversion efficiency of any photovoltaic
technology. The incorporation of high-quality nanostructures can tailor absorption to the …

Achieving flexible higher efficiency GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs solar cells by 40-period quantum well superlattices

M Yu, J Long, Q Sun, Z Chen, X Wu, ZL Wu, X Luo… - Nano Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Quantum-well tandem solar cells have been shown to achieve higher efficiencies due to a
more matched bandgap combination. But beyond 100-period quantum wells, the stress …

Quantum wire‐on‐well (WoW) cell with long carrier lifetime for efficient carrier transport

M Sugiyama, H Fujii, T Katoh… - Progress in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A quantum wire‐on‐well (WoW) structure, taking advantage of the layer undulation of an
InGaAs/GaAs/GaAsP superlattice grown on a vicinal substrate, was demonstrated to …

Thickness-modulated InGaAs/GaAsP superlattice solar cells on vicinal substrates

H Fujii, T Katoh, K Toprasertpong… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
InGaAs/GaAsP superlattice (SL) is a promising narrow-gap material for III–V multi-junction
solar cells on Ge. In metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) of SL on vicinal substrates …

Current flow mechanism in GaAs solar cells with GaInAs quantum dots

M Mintairov, V Evstropov, M Shvarts… - AIP Conference …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Resistance-less dark IV-curves of GaAs solar cells with and without quantum-dimensional
objects allied to both quantum dot and quantum well have been obtained and analyzed …

Flat metamorphic InAlAs buffer layer on GaAs (111) A misoriented substrates by growth kinetics control

A Tuktamyshev, S Vichi, F Cesura, A Fedorov… - Journal of Crystal …, 2022 - Elsevier
We have successfully grown, through the detailed control of the growth kinetics, flat InAlAs
metamorphic buffer layers on 2∘-off GaAs (111) A substrates using molecular beam epitaxy …