Non-ideal energy selective contacts and their effect on the performance of a hot carrier solar cell with an indium nitride absorber

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Y ^a   Aliberti, P ^a   Veettil, B P ^a   Patterson, R ^a   Shrestha, S ^a   Green, M A ^a   Conibeer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; CARRIER EXTRACTION; CELL PERFORMANCE; INDIUM NITRIDE; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; THIRD GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HOT CARRIERS;

EID: 84856992357     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680594     Document Type: Article

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