The Spatial Collection Efficiency of Charge Carriers in Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Cells

Joule

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 210-224

  Segev, Gideon ^a,b   Dotan, Hen ^a   Ellis, David S ^a   Piekner, Yifat ^a   Klotz, Dino ^a,c   Beeman, Jeffrey W ^b   Cooper, Jason K ^b   Grave, Daniel A ^a   Sharp, Ian D ^b,d   Rothschild, Avner ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

charge separation; hematite; incident photon to current efficiency (IPCE); photocurrent action spectra; photovoltaic materials; quantum efficiency; recombination; solar cells; spatial collection efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HEMATITE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOCURRENT ACTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; RECOMBINATION;

EXTRACTION;

HEMATITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; SPECTRUM;

EID: 85042513575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25424351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2017.12.007     Document Type: Review

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