Carrier transport in a quantum dot solar cell using semiclassical and quantum mechanical models

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-199

  Semichaevsky, Andrey V ^a   Johnson, Harley T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum dots; Scattering; Solar cells; Transport

Indexed keywords

CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; DENSITY MATRIX FORMALISM; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; GAAS; INAS/GAAS; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; MULTIPLE LAYERS; MULTISCALE MODELS; NON-RADIATIVE; PHOTO-CARRIERS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; QUANTUM DOT ARRAYS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL MODEL; QUANTUM SCATTERING; STACKED LAYER; TRANSPORT;

ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84867741558     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.09.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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