Hot carrier solar cells: The device that did not exist (but should)

Author

Guillemoles, Jean-Francois ; Bris, A. Le ; Lombez, L. ; Laribi, S. ; Tea, E. ; Aniel, F.

Author_Institution

IRDEP, CNRS, Chatou, France

fYear

2011

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

18

Abstract

Hot carriers are an unusual type of solar cell, very efficient in principle but where electronic, optical and thermal effects are inextricably mixed. Modeling was used first to understand the device operation. Then more detailed simulations were made on phononic properties of the nanostructures absorbing material using DFT-based molecular dynamics and electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions using a Monte Carlo approach.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; density functional theory; electron-electron interactions; electron-phonon interactions; hot carriers; molecular dynamics method; nanostructured materials; solar cells; DFT-based molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo approach; density functional theory; electron-electron interaction; electron-phonon interaction; electronic effects; hot carrier solar cell; nanostructure absorbing material; optical effects; phononic properties; thermal effects; Hot carriers; Lattices; Nanostructures; Phonons; Photovoltaic cells; Silicon; Vibrations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-876-1

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2011.6041204

Filename

6041204