Electronic and thermal transport in hot carrier solar cells with low-dimensional contacts |
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Authors: | MF O’Dwyer TE Humphrey RA Lewis C Zhang |
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Affiliation: | School of Engineering Physics and Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, N.S.W. 2522, Australia |
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Abstract: | Hot carrier solar cells are a third generation solar cell device where electrons and holes, heated by solar radiation, are removed from the absorber via low-dimensional energy selective contacts before they can thermalise to the band edge. Here, a new model is presented for calculating the performance of these devices, which takes into account the energy spectrum of the contacts. It is shown that efficiency is maximised with a certain ideal number of contacts and that the energy spectra of these should be narrow. |
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