Review of carrier thermalization mechanisms in II-VI QDs and their potential application as the absorber in hot carrier solar cells

Y Zhang, R Wang, H Yang, J Zhang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The hot carrier solar cell (HCSC) aims to completely utilize the thermalization energy loss to
boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE), where its key components are hot carrier …

Insights and future perspectives for constructing efficient electron pathways in photoanodes of QDSSCs

S Akash, R Shwetharani, J Kusuma, RG Balakrishna - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) can capably align with other emerging
photovoltaic technologies, because of their ability to generate multiple excitons, availability …

Cu12Sb4S13 Quantum Dots with Ligand Exchange as Hole Transport Materials in All-Inorganic Perovskite CsPbI3 Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Y Liu, X Zhao, Z Yang, Q Li, W Wei, B Hu… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have developed rapidly in the past 10 years. However, they
are faced with a huge challenge for stability improvement because of the volatile organic …

The diffusion effect of copper on the flexible GaInP/GaAs solar cells

Q Sun, J Long, X Li, P Dai, Y Zhang… - IEEE Electron …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electroplating copper is widely used in the fabrication of flexible III-V multijunction solar cell
because of its excellent characteristics of lightness, flexibility and conductivity of thin Cu …

Highly efficient and durable electron transport layer for QDSSC: An integrated approach to address recombination losses

S Akash, R Shwetharani, J Kusuma, S Akhil… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSC) are up-and-coming low cost third-generation
solar cells technology. The distinctive properties of quantum dots (QDs) feature QDSSC as …

Simple strategies deployed for developing efficient and stable solution processed quantum dot solar cells

PN Kumar, A Das, A Kolay, M Deepa - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inorganic quantum dot (QD) semiconductors offer tailorable bandgaps thus rendering them
attractive as photosensitizers for solar cells. The currently evolving strategies employed for …

Analysis for nonradiative recombination loss and radiation degradation of Si space solar cells

M Yamaguchi, KH Lee, K Araki… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon space solar cells are currently attracting attention again for their relatively low‐cost
feature with sufficient performance, and they are expected to resume into the space market …

Micron-sized silica mesh for enhancing the performance of quantum dot sensitized solar cells

ZS Tabarestani, M Samadpour - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Three dimensional silica mesh structures are prepared through a new and simple method
for enhancing the quantum dot sensitized solar cells performance and stability. Silica …

Efficiency enhancement of solar cells using multi-layer interdiffused InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots: A numerical approach

A Rai, SSA Askari, MK Das, S Kumar - Micro and Nanostructures, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a mathematical model has been developed to analyze the effect of the number
of quantum dot layers on the performance of solar cells. We have developed an analytical …

Experimental evidence of complex energy-level structuring in quantum dot intermediate band solar cells

A Creti, V Tasco, G Montagna, I Tarantini… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
III–V quantum dot systems are widely studied to implement the promising intermediate band
solar cell concept. However, current performances are quite lower than theoretical …