Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials

We systematically analyzed the detailed-balance-limit-conversion efficiency of solar cells with quantum dots (QDs) embedded in host materials. We calculated their open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current, and conversion efficiency within single-photon absorption conditions, both in the radiative...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Lin, Akiyama, Hidefumi, Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30076353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30208-z
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description We systematically analyzed the detailed-balance-limit-conversion efficiency of solar cells with quantum dots (QDs) embedded in host materials. We calculated their open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current, and conversion efficiency within single-photon absorption conditions, both in the radiative limit and in other cases with non-radiative recombination loss, using modeled absorption band with various absorptivities and energy widths formed below that of the host material. Our results quantitatively revealed the existence of intrinsic and significant drops in the open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency of QD solar cells, in addition to extrinsic drops due to degraded material quality.
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spelling pubmed-60763262018-08-08 Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials Zhu, Lin Akiyama, Hidefumi Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko Sci Rep Article We systematically analyzed the detailed-balance-limit-conversion efficiency of solar cells with quantum dots (QDs) embedded in host materials. We calculated their open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current, and conversion efficiency within single-photon absorption conditions, both in the radiative limit and in other cases with non-radiative recombination loss, using modeled absorption band with various absorptivities and energy widths formed below that of the host material. Our results quantitatively revealed the existence of intrinsic and significant drops in the open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency of QD solar cells, in addition to extrinsic drops due to degraded material quality. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6076326/ /pubmed/30076353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30208-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
title_full Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
title_fullStr Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
title_full_unstemmed Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
title_short Intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
title_sort intrinsic and extrinsic drops in open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency in solar cells with quantum dots embedded in host materials
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076326/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30208-z
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