Utilizing Hot Electrons

Arthur Nozik

doi:10.1038/s41560-018-0112-5

Utilizing Hot Electrons

Arthur Nozik

Chemistry and Nanoscience

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Abstract

In current solar cells, any photon energy exceeding the semiconductor bandgap is lost before being collected, limiting the cell performance. Hot carrier solar cells could avoid these losses. Now, a detailed experimental study and analysis shows that this strategy could lead to an improvement of the photoconversion efficiency in practice.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	170-171
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Energy
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0112-5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0112-5
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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NREL/JA-5900-71220

Keywords

bandgap
efficiency
photoconversion
solar cells

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