Impact-ionization-assisted intermediate band solar cell

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 447-454

  Luque, Antonio ^a   Martí, Antonio ^a   Cuadra, Lucas ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Impact ionization; Intermediate band solar cell (IBSC); Multiband solar cell; Photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; IMPACT IONIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BAND SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0037718603     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2003.809024     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. A. Luque and A. Martí, "Increasing the efficiency of ideal solar cells by photon induced transitions at intermediate levels," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 78, no. 26, pp. 5014-5017, 1997.
2. W. Shockley and H. J. Queisser, "Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 32, pp. 510-519, 1961.
3. C. Tablero, P. Wahnon, L. Cuadra, A. Martí, J. Fernández, and A. Luque, "Efficiencies of half-filled intermediate band solar cell designed by first principles calculations," in Proc. 17th Eur. PVSC, London, U.K., 2002, pp. 296-299.
4. P. Wahnon and C. Tablero, "Ab-initio electronic structure calculations for metallic intermediate band formation in photovoltaic materials," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 65, no. 165 115, pp. 1-10, 2002.
5. A. Martí, L. Cuadra, and A. Luque, "Quantum dot intermediate band solar cell," in Proc. 28th Photovoltaics Specialist Conf., New York, 2000, pp. 940-943.
6. _, "Partial filling of a quantum dot intermediate band for solar cells," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 48, pp. 2394-2399, Oct. 2001.
7. A. Luque, A. Martí, P. Wahnon, L. Cuadra, C. Tablero, C. Stanley, A. McKee, D. Zhou, R. Könenkamp, R. Bayón, A. Belaidi, J. Alonso, J. Ruiz, J. Fernández, P. Palacios, and N. López, "Progress toward the practical implementation of the intermediate band solar cell," in Proc. 29th IEEE PVSC, New Orleans, LA, 2002, pp. 1190-1193.
8. G. Cassaboisa, C. Kammerera, C. Voisin, C. Delalande, P.Ph. Roussignol, and J. M. Gerard, "Photoluminescence up-conversion of single InAs-GaAs quantum dots," Phys. E, vol. 13, pp. 105-108, 2002.
9. C.B. Honsberg and R. Corkish, "Design trade-offs and rules for multiple quasifermi level solar cells," Phys. E, vol. 14, pp. 136-141, 2002.
10. S. P. Bremner, C. B. Honsberg, and R. Corkish, "Non-ideal recombination and transport mechanisms in multiple band gap solar cells," in Proc. 28th Photovoltaics Specialist Conf., 2000, pp. 1206-1208.
11. G. L. Araújo and A. Martí, "Absolute limiting efficiency for photovoltaic energy conversion," Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 33, pp. 213-240, 1994.
12. A. Martí, J. L. Balenzategui, and R. M. F. Reyna, "Photon recycling and shockley's diode equation," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 82, no. 8, pp. 4067-4075, 1997.
13. A. Martí, L. Cuadra, and A. Luque, "Analysis of the space charge region of the quantum dot intermediate band solar cell," in Photovoltaics for the 21st Century, Proc de la 199th Electrochemical Society Meeting. Pennington, 2001, pp. 46-60.
14. A. Luque and A. Martí, "Prog.Photovolt," Res. Appl., vol. 9, p. 73, 2001.
15. R. A. Sinton and R. M. Swanson, "Limiting recombination in Si concentrator solar cells," in Proc. 7th EC PSEC, Seville, Spain, 1987, pp. 917-920.
16. M. Levinshtein, S. Rumyantsev, and M. Shur, Eds., Semiconductor Parameters, Singapore: World Scientific, 1999, vol. 1.