[HTML][HTML] Emergence of new materials for exploiting highly efficient carrier multiplication in photovoltaics

S Maiti, M van der Laan, D Poonia, P Schall… - Chemical Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In conventional solar cell semiconductor materials, the excess energy of electrons and holes
beyond the bandgap is wasted as heat, because they cool down to the band edge due to …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopic reversibility demands lower open circuit voltage in multiple exciton generation solar cells

A Pusch, SP Bremner, MJY Tayebjee… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Multiple exciton generation (MEG) increases the short circuit current of solar cells and is,
therefore, often cited as a candidate scheme for surpassing the efficiency limit of single …

Direct visualization and determination of the multiple exciton generation rate

D Timmerman, E Matsubara, L Gomez, M Ashida… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Multiple exciton generation (MEG) takes place in competition to other hot carrier cooling
processes. While the determination of carrier cooling rates is well established, direct …

Ab initio modeling of phonon-assisted relaxation of electrons and excitons in semiconductor nanocrystals for multiexciton generation

T Zeng, Y He - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The electron-phonon interaction is fundamental to many physical and chemical processes.
The ab initio computation based on modern many-body Green's function (MBGF) theory can …