Rapid hot‐carrier cooling is a major loss channel in solar cells. Thermodynamic calculations
reveal a 66% solar conversion efficiency for single junction cells (under 1 sun illumination) if …

Conspectus During surface plasmon-mediated light–matter interactions, external energies
on plasmonic metal nanostructures undergo energy dissipation via elastic e–e scattering …

In this review article, we discuss the working mechanism of hot carrier solar cells (HCSCs),
their prerequisites from a material point of view and consider power conversion efficiencies …

The performance of semiconductor devices is fundamentally governed by charge-carrier
dynamics within the active materials,,,,–. Although advances have been made towards …

The rapid relaxation of above-band-gap “hot” carriers (HCs) imposes the key efficiency limit
in lead-halide perovskite (LHP) solar cells. Recent studies have indicated that HC cooling in …

Among the exceptional properties of lead halide perovskites (LHPs) is the ultraslow cooling
of hot carriers. Carrier densities below the Mott density for large polarons (≤≈ 1018 cm− 3) …

Albeit enormous achievement has already been made in photovoltaic and optoelectronic
fields with perovskites, further advancement is needed to address key challenges …

With rocketing power conversion efficiency and continuously enhancing stability, perovskite
solar cells (PSCs) have shown extraordinary potential to become a key player in tomorrow's …

We report here the hot carrier (HC) cooling time scales within polyhedral CsPbBr3
nanocrystals (NCs) characterized by different numbers of facets (6 to 26) utilizing a …

A deep understanding of hot carrier (HC) dynamics is important to improve the performance
of optoelectronic devices by reducing the thermalization losses. Here, we investigate the hot …