Ab initio study of hot carriers in the first picosecond after sunlight absorption in silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2014, Pages

  Bernardi, Marco ^a,b   Vigil Fowler, Derek ^a,b   Lischner, Johannes ^a,b   Neaton, Jeffrey B ^a,b,c   Louie, Steven G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHARACTERIZATION; SILICON;

AB INITIO APPROACH; CARRIER DISTRIBUTIONS; CARRIER DYNAMICS; MANY BODY PERTURBATION THEORY; MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SUBPICOSECOND TIME SCALE;

HOT CARRIERS;

EID: 84903550782     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.257402     Document Type: Article

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