Slow hot‐carrier cooling in halide perovskites: prospects for hot‐carrier solar cells

M Li, J Fu, Q Xu, TC Sum - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid hot‐carrier cooling is a major loss channel in solar cells. Thermodynamic calculations
reveal a 66% solar conversion efficiency for single junction cells (under 1 sun illumination) if …

Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures

KK Paul, JH Kim, YH Lee - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

When group-III nitrides go infrared: New properties and perspectives

J Wu - Journal of applied physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Wide-band-gap GaN and Ga-rich InGaN alloys, with energy gaps covering the blue and
near-ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, are one group of the dominant …

Acoustic-optical phonon up-conversion and hot-phonon bottleneck in lead-halide perovskites

J Yang, X Wen, H **a, R Sheng, Q Ma, J Kim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The hot-phonon bottleneck effect in lead-halide perovskites (APbX3) prolongs the cooling
period of hot charge carriers, an effect that could be used in the next-generation …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

Ab Initio Study of Hot Carriers in the First Picosecond after Sunlight Absorption in Silicon

M Bernardi, D Vigil-Fowler, J Lischner, JB Neaton… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Hot carrier thermalization is a major source of efficiency loss in solar cells. Because of the
subpicosecond time scale and complex physics involved, a microscopic characterization of …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical limits of photovoltaics efficiency and possible improvements by intuitive approaches learned from photosynthesis and quantum coherence

FH Alharbi, S Kais - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
In this review, we present and discussed the main trends in photovoltaics (PV) with
emphasize on the conversion efficiency limits. The theoretical limits of various photovoltaics …

Hot carrier solar cells: Principles, materials and design

D König, K Casalenuovo, Y Takeda, G Conibeer… - Physica E: Low …, 2010 - Elsevier
The concept of hot carrier solar cells is discussed in terms of carrier cooling, conditions of
energy-and carrier-selectivity for the energy selective contacts and macroscopic device …