Compositional and interface engineering of organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells

H Lu, A Krishna, SM Zakeeruddin, M Grätzel… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has remarkably been
increased from 3.1% to 25.2%. The fast expansion of the PSCs has been along with the …

The electrical behaviors of grain boundaries in polycrystalline optoelectronic materials

Z Gao, C Leng, H Zhao, X Wei, H Shi… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polycrystalline optoelectronic materials are widely used for photoelectric signal conversion
and energy harvesting and play an irreplaceable role in the semiconductor field. As an …

Photoluminescence lifetimes exceeding 8 μs and quantum yields exceeding 30% in hybrid perovskite thin films by ligand passivation

DW DeQuilettes, S Koch, S Burke, RK Paranji… - ACS Energy …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We study the effects of a series of post-deposition ligand treatments on the
photoluminescence (PL) of polycrystalline methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite thin …

A 19.9%-efficient ultrathin solar cell based on a 205-nm-thick GaAs absorber and a silver nanostructured back mirror

HL Chen, A Cattoni, R De Lépinau, AW Walker… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
Conventional photovoltaic devices are currently made from relatively thick semiconductor
layers,~ 150 µm for silicon and 2–4 µm for Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2, CdTe or III–V direct bandgap …

Electrical and optical characterization of surface passivation in GaAs nanowires

CC Chang, CY Chi, M Yao, N Huang, CC Chen… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report a systematic study of carrier dynamics in Al x Ga1–x As-passivated GaAs
nanowires. With passivation, the minority carrier diffusion length (L diff) increases from 30 to …

Experimental demonstration of enhanced photon recycling in angle-restricted GaAs solar cells

ED Kosten, BM Kayes, HA Atwater - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
For cells near the radiative limit, optically limiting the angles of emitted light causes emitted
photons to be recycled back to the cell, leading to enhancement in voltage and efficiency …

Electrical passivation of III-V multijunction solar cells with luminescent coupling effect

BMY Jeco-Espaldon, R Tamaki, M Giteau, H Xu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Perimeter recombination is one of the causes identified for having a nonuniform luminescent
coupling effect in III-V multijunction solar cells. A potential solution could be the electrical …

Physical principles of losses in thin film solar cells and efficiency enhancement methods

M Dhankhar, OP Singh, VN Singh - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although there are individual reports on the efficiency enhancement methods in the form of
news articles, highlights and research papers in the literature; there is no article mentioning …

Energy harvesting for GaAs photovoltaics under low-flux indoor lighting conditions

AS Teran, E Moon, W Lim, G Kim, I Lee… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GaAs photovoltaics are promising candidates for indoor energy harvesting to power small-
scale (mm 2) electronics. This application has stringent requirements on dark current …

Review on photonic properties of nanowires for photovoltaics

S Mokkapati, C Jagadish - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
III-V semiconductor nanowires behave as optical antennae because of their shape
anisotropy and high refractive index. The antennae like behavior modifies the absorption …