On the partial filling of the intermediate band in IB solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1201-1207

  Luque, Antonio ^a   Martí, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intermediate band (IB); Quantum dot (QD); Solar cell

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ELECTRON-HOLE PAIR GENERATION; GENERALIZED MODELS; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; PARTIAL FILLING; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; SUBBAND-GAP;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77952746236     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2045681     Document Type: Article

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