GaAs Based InAs/InGaAs Quantum Dots-in-a-Well Solar Cells and Their Concentration Applications

K Yang, MA El-Emawy, T Gu, A Stintz… - MRS Online …, 2009 - cambridge.org
Quantum dot (QD) solar cells have been actively investigated recently since they have been
theoretically shown to have the potential to realize high conversion efficiencies. However …

Fabrication and characterization of multi-layer InAs/InGaAs quantum dot pin GaAs solar cells grown on silicon substrates

M Omri, A Sayari, L Sfaxi - Applied Physics A, 2018 - Springer
This paper reports on InAs/InGaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) deposited by molecular
beam epitaxy (MBE) on (001) n-type silicon (n-Si) substrates. In-situ RHEED measurements …

Efficiency limit of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells attributed to quantum dot size effects

RP Smith, JS Kim, SK Noh, SJ Lee, CL Lee… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
The effects of quantum dot (QD) size on the optical and electrical properties of InAs/GaAs
QD solar cells (QDSCs) were investigated. QDSCs with varying InAs QD size were …

Effect of dot-height truncation on the device performance of multilayer InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells

J Zribi, B Ilahi, B Paquette, A Jaouad… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effect of dot-height truncation on the device performance of multilayer InAs/GaAs
quantum dot solar cells is investigated. The different structures were grown by chemical …

Effect of growth temperature and quantum structure on InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell

MH Park, HS Kim, SJ Park, JD Song… - … of Nanoscience and …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
InGaAs-capped InAs quantum dots (QDs) and InAs QDs were adopted for the study of the
effects through growth temperature and the band structure of InAs QDs on the performance …

Challenges to the concept of an intermediate band in InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells

T Li, RE Bartolo, M Dagenais - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
An InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) solar cell was compared to a similar bulk GaAs pin
structure. A 5% increase of the photocurrent was measured in the QD solar cell under Global …

Improvement of performance of GaAs solar cells by inserting self-organized InAs/InGaAs quantum dot superlattices

A Sayari, M Ezzidini, B Azeza, S Rekaya… - Solar energy materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates the feasibility of improving the performance of a quantum dot (QD)
intermediate band solar cell (SC) by capping an InGaAs layer on the InAs QDs and inserting …

Comparison of InAs/GaAs and InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells and effect of post-growth annealing on their optical properties

D Panda, A Balgarkashi, S Sardar… - 2016 IEEE 43rd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have reported InAs/GaAs and InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) and the
effect of rapid thermal annealing (RTA) on their optical properties. A thermal stability was …

[HTML][HTML] High-efficiency InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

K Tanabe, D Guimard, D Bordel, Y Arakawa - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We fabricate a high-efficiency InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) solar cell. It contains five layers
of high-density self-assembled InAs QDs grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition …

InGaP-based InGaAs quantum dot solar cells with GaAs spacer layer fabricated using solid-source molecular beam epitaxy

T Sugaya, A Takeda, R Oshima, K Matsubara… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report InGaP-based multistacked InGaAs quantum dot (QD) solar cells with GaAs spacer
layers. We obtain a highly stacked and well-aligned InGaAs QD structure with GaAs spacer …