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 …

Future of photovoltaic technologies: A comprehensive review

S Ghosh, R Yadav - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2021 - Elsevier
Presently, the world is going through a euphoric rush to install photovoltaic (PV) devices in
deserts, over water bodies, on rooftops of houses, vehicles, and parking spaces, and many …

Triple-junction solar cells with 39.5% terrestrial and 34.2% space efficiency enabled by thick quantum well superlattices

RM France, JF Geisz, T Song, W Olavarria, M Young… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Multijunction solar cell design is guided by both the theoretical optimal bandgap
combination as well as the realistic limitations to materials with these bandgaps. For …

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 …

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 …

Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy of III–V-on-silicon: Experiment and theory

O Supplie, O Romanyuk, C Koppka, M Steidl… - Progress in Crystal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The integration of III–V semiconductors with Si has been pursued for more than 25 years
since it is strongly desired in various high-efficiency applications ranging from …

Non-equilibrium dynamics, materials and structures for hot carrier solar cells: a detailed review

D König, Y Yao, B Puthen-Veettil… - … Science and Technology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since their advent around the start of the millennium, hot carrier solar cells came into the
focus of a broader research community as one of the so-called third generation photovoltaic …

Development of back side technology for light trap** and photon recycling in GaAs solar cells

DN Micha, O Höhn, E Oliva, V Klinger… - Progress in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we propose and realize three different design strategies to implement an optical
cavity in GaAs thin film solar cells in order to confine its internal luminescence and hence to …

[HTML][HTML] Photovoltaic characterisation of GaAsBi/GaAs multiple quantum well devices

RD Richards, A Mellor, F Harun, JS Cheong… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
A series of strained GaAsBi/GaAs multiple quantum well diodes are characterised to assess
the potential of GaAsBi for photovoltaic applications. The devices are compared with …

[HTML][HTML] Growth interruption strategies for interface optimization in GaAsSb/GaAsN type-II superlattices

V Braza, T Ben, S Flores, DF Reyes… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, GaAsSb/GaAsN type II short-period superlattices (SLs) have been
proposed as suitable structures to be implemented in the optimal design of monolithic multi …