In current solar cells, any photon energy exceeding the semiconductor bandgap is lost
before being collected, limiting the cell performance. Hot carrier solar cells could avoid these …

We summarize our recent explorations of photophysical mechanisms that may be utilized in
solar cells with power conversion efficiency theoretically exceeding the Shockley–Queisser …

Solar cells absorb sunlight photons by promoting electrons within the cell from ground to
excited states, from where most are extracted as electrical current between cell terminals …

The endeavor of the scientific community to maximize the possibility to harvest Sun
irradiation for energy production is mainly devoted to the improvement of the power …

Hot-carrier solar cells are envisioned to utilize energyfiltering to extract power from
photogenerated electron–hole pairs before they thermalize with the lattice, and thus …

We have evaluated the influence of practical factors on the conversion efficiency of hot
carrier solar cells, from which photogenerated carriers are extracted before being completely …

We have constructed new models based on detailed balance of particle and energy fluxes to
clarify the operating principle of hot-carrier solar cells (HC-SCs) and find the requisites for …

Several decades ago, it was proposed that one could improve the single junction solar cell
by the concentration of effort onto the hot carriers. In the intervening years, no significant …

In common photovoltaic devices, the part of the incident energy above the absorption
threshold quickly ends up as heat, which limits their maximum achievable efficiency to far …

The direct conversion of solar energy to electricity can be broadly separated into two main
categories: photovoltaics and thermal photovoltaics, where the former utilizes gradients in …