TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of different electron and holes effective masses, temperatures and electrochemical potentials on the hot carrier solar cell efficiency
AU - Gibelli, Francois
AU - Guillemoles, Jean Francois
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/11/18
Y1 - 2016/11/18
N2 - Third generation hot carrier solar cells could achieve very high conversion yield at reasonable cost. Different theoretical approaches have been used to model these devices and to determine the maximal achivable efficiency, by taking into account different working conditions as well as different losses. However, the uncertainty about the kind of the carrier which heats has led to consider in the different models that both electrons and holes were at a same hot temperature. Here we revisit the theoretical work about hot carriers in order to take into account two different hot temperatures, one for each type of carrier (electron or hole). Then we use this theoretical approach to model the hot carrier solar cell performance with different electron and hole thermodynamical properties.
AB - Third generation hot carrier solar cells could achieve very high conversion yield at reasonable cost. Different theoretical approaches have been used to model these devices and to determine the maximal achivable efficiency, by taking into account different working conditions as well as different losses. However, the uncertainty about the kind of the carrier which heats has led to consider in the different models that both electrons and holes were at a same hot temperature. Here we revisit the theoretical work about hot carriers in order to take into account two different hot temperatures, one for each type of carrier (electron or hole). Then we use this theoretical approach to model the hot carrier solar cell performance with different electron and hole thermodynamical properties.
KW - hot carrier modeling
KW - hot carrier solar cells
KW - non-equilibrium electron and hole distributions
KW - non-equilibrium generalized Planck's law
U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749769
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749769
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85003706749
T3 - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
SP - 1039
EP - 1042
BT - 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
Y2 - 5 June 2016 through 10 June 2016
ER -