Investigation of boron antimonide as hot carrier absorber material

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-126

  Yao, Yao ^a   König, Dirk ^a   Green, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boron antimonide; DFT; Hot carrier solar cell; Phonon bottleneck

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO METHOD; ABSORBER MATERIAL; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ANTIMONIDES; BAND DISPERSIONS; CARRIER COOLING; DFT; ELECTRON EFFECTIVE MASS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; INDIRECT BAND GAP; PHONON BOTTLENECK; PHONON DECAY; THIRD GENERATION;

BORON; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; HOT CARRIERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONONS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

EID: 84873837789     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.12.029     Document Type: Article

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