Energy band structure and absorption coefficients in the quantum-dot intermediate band solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1808-1813

  Hu, W G ^a   Inoue, T ^a   Kojima, O ^a   Kita, T ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BALANCE MODEL; BAND GAPS; ENERGY BAND STRUCTURE; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FILLING FACTOR; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; NONUNIFORM; QUANTUM DOTS; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; ROUGH APPROXIMATIONS; STATE DENSITIES;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; BAND STRUCTURE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FERMI LEVEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 78650156261     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5615917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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