Progress on hot carrier cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 713-719

  Conibeer, Gavin ^a   Ekins Daukes, Nicholas ^a   Guillemoles, Jean François ^b   Konig, Dirk ^a   Cho, Eun Chel ^a   Jiang, Chu Wei ^a   Shrestha, Santosh ^a   Green, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hot carriers; Phonons; Resonant tunnelling; Vibronic modelling

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIALS; CARRIER COOLING; DOUBLE-BARRIER STRUCTURES; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; PHONON DISPERSIONS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; RESONANT TUNNELLING; SI QUANTUM DOTS; VIBRONIC MODELLING;

CELL MEMBRANES; COOLING; MOSFET DEVICES; PHONONS; PHOTOEXCITATION; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

HOT CARRIERS;

EID: 67349191473     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.09.034     Document Type: Article

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