Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress

Martin A. Green; Gavin Conibeer; Dirk König; Santosh Shrestha; Shujuan Huang; Pasquale Aliberti; Lara Treiber; Robert Patterson; Binesh Puthen Veettil; Andy Hsieh; Yu Feng; A. Luque; A. Marti; P. G. Linares; E. Cánovas; E. Antolĺn; D. Fuertes Marrón; C. Tablero; E. Hernández; J. F. Guillemoles; L. Huang; A. Le Bris; T. Schmidt; R. Clad; M. Tayebjee

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614200

Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress

Martin A. Green
, Gavin Conibeer
, Dirk König
, Santosh Shrestha
, Shujuan Huang
, Pasquale Aliberti
, Lara Treiber
, Robert Patterson
, Binesh Puthen Veettil
, Andy Hsieh
, Yu Feng
, A. Luque
, A. Marti
, P. G. Linares
, E. Cánovas
, E. Antolĺn
, D. Fuertes Marrón
, C. Tablero
, E. Hernández
, J. F. Guillemoles

L. Huang, A. Le Bris, T. Schmidt, R. Clad, M. Tayebjee

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Abstract

The limiting efficiency on the conversion efficiency of terrestrial global sunlight is not circa 31%, as commonly assumed, but 74%. To reach the lowest possible costs and hence to attain its intrinsic potential as a major source of future sustainable energy supplies, it would appear photovoltaics has to evolve to devices targeting the latter efficiency rather than the former. The hot carrier solar cell, although presenting substantial device challenges, is arguably the highest efficiency photovoltaic device concept yet suggested and hence worthy of efforts to investigate its practicality. Challenges in the implementation of hot carrier cells are identified and progress in overcoming these are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Program - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	57-60
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781424458912
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614200
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

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Name	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)	0160-8371

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Green, M. A., Conibeer, G., König, D., Shrestha, S., Huang, S., Aliberti, P., Treiber, L., Patterson, R., Veettil, B. P., Hsieh, A., Feng, Y., Luque, A., Marti, A., Linares, P. G., Cánovas, E., Antolĺn, E., Marrón, D. F., Tablero, C., Hernández, E., ... Tayebjee, M. (2010). Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress. In Program - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010 (pp. 57-60). Article 5614200 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614200

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Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress. / Green, Martin A.; Conibeer, Gavin; König, Dirk et al.
Program - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2010. p. 57-60 5614200 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).

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Green MA, Conibeer G, König D, Shrestha S, Huang S, Aliberti P et al. Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress. In Program - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2010. p. 57-60. 5614200. (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614200

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