Energy band structure and the half-filling of the intermediate band in the quantum-dot solar cell

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 622-624

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Half filling; Intermediate band; Quantum dots; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BALANCE EQUATIONS; BAND GAPS; ENERGY BAND STRUCTURE; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FILLING FACTOR; HALF-FILLING; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; NONUNIFORM; OPERATION VOLTAGE; QUANTUM DOTS; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL; ROUGH APPROXIMATIONS; STATE DENSITIES; WEAK ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; BAND STRUCTURE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FILLING; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 79951688541     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201000485     Document Type: Article

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