Slowing of carrier cooling in hot carrier solar cells

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 516, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6948-6953

  Conibeer, G J ^a   Konig D ^a   Green, M A ^a   Guillemoles, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carrier cooling; Hot carriers; Phonon bottleneck

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; COOLING; DECAY (ORGANIC); DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; HOT CARRIERS; MECHANISMS; MODULATION; PHONONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC-PHONON (AP); BINARY COMPOUNDS; CARRIER (CO); CARRIER COOLING; DECAY RATES; ELSEVIER (CO); LATTICE (CO); OPTICAL PHONONS; PHONON BOTTLENECK; PHONONIC BAND GAPS; PHOTON ENERGIES; PICOSECONDS; QUANTUM-DOT SUPERLATTICES (QDSL); WIDE-RANGE;

CIVIL AVIATION;

EID: 45849085052     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.102     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Würfel P. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 46 (1997) 43-47
2. Green M.A. Third Generation Photovoltaics: Ultra-High Efficiency at Low Cost (2003)), (Springer-Verlag
3. Guillemoles J.-F., Conibeer G.J., and Green M.A. Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conf. (Dresden (2006) 234
4. Nozik A.J., Parsons C.A., Dunlary D.J., Keyes B.M., and Ahrenkiel R.K. Solid State Comm. 75 (1990) 247
5. Westland D.J., Ryan J.F., Scott M.D., Davies J.I., and Riffat J.R. Solid State Electron. 31 (1988) 431
6. Conibeer G., Guillemoles J.-F., König D., and Green M.A. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conf. (Dresden (2006) 90
7. Guillemoles J.-F., Conibeer G.J., and Green M.A. Proc. 15th Photovoltaics Specialists Solar Energy Conf. (Shanghai (2005) 375
8. Conibeer G.J., Guillemoles J.-F., and Green M.A. 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conf. (Barcelona (2005) 35
9. Conibeer G.J., and Green M.A. 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conf. (Paris (2004) 270
10. Klemens P.G. Phys. Rev. 148 (1966) 845
11. Colvard C., Gant T.A., and Klein M.V. Phys. Rev. B 31 (1985) 2080
12. Davydov V., Emtsev V., Goncharuk I., Smirnov A., Petrikov V., Mamutin V., Vekshin V., and Ivanov S. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (1999) 3297
13. Pomeroy J.W., Kuball M., Lu H., Schaff W.J., Wang X., and Yoshikawa A. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 (2005) 223501
14. Chen F., and Cartwright A.N. Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 (2003) 4984
15. Pelouch W.S., Ellingson R.J., Powers P.E., Tang C.L., Szmyd D.M., and Nozik A.J. Phys. Rev. B 45 (1992) 1450
16. Rosenwaks Y., Hanna M.C., Levi D.H., Szmyd D.M., Ahrenkiel R.K., and Nozik A.J. Phys. Rev. B, 48 (1993) 14675
17. Ascazubi R., Wilke I., Cho S., Lu H., and Schaff W.J. Appl. Phys. Lett. 88 (2006) 121111
18. Barman S., and Shivestava G.P. Phys. Rev. 69 (2004) 235208
19. Debernardi A. Phys. Rev. B 57 (1998) 12847
20. Green M.A. Silicon Solar Cells: Advanced Principles and Practice (1995)), (University of New South Wales
21. Hyldgaard P., and Mahan G. Phys. Rev. B 56 (1997) 10754
22. Tamura S., Tanaka Y., and Maris H.J. Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 2627
23. Ridley B.K. Phys. Rev. B 39 (1989) 5282
24. Kelly M.J. J. Phys. C 18 (1985) 5963
25. Jain J.K., and Das Sarma S. Phys. Rev. Lett. 62 (1989) 2305
26. Sood A.K., Menendez J., Cardona M., and Ploog K. Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 2115
27. Bottner H., Chen G., and Venkatasubramanian R. MRS Bull. 31 (2006) 211
28. Yang B., and Chen G. Phys. Rev. B 67 (2003) 195311