Spectrally resolved intraband transitions on two-step photon absorption in InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tamaki, Ryo ^a   Shoji, Yasushi ^a   Okada, Yoshitaka ^a   Miyano, Kenjiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LOW TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

EXCITATION INTENSITY; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; INTRABAND TRANSITIONS; PHOTON ABSORPTION PROCESS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; RESONANT EXCITATION;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84919810425     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4893879     Document Type: Article

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