Efficiency of quantum dot solar cell enhanced by improving quantum dots performance

HL Weng, HY Ueng, CP Lee - physica status solidi (a), 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We propose an innovative description to provide a quantitative basis to enhance the
conversion efficiency of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSC). A theoretical approach …

InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells with quantum dots in the base region

S Chan, D Kim, AM Sanchez, Y Zhang… - IET …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the influence of quantum dot (QD) position on the performance of solar cells
was studied. The presence of QDs within the base regions leads to improved open circuit …

High-efficiency quantum dot solar cells due to inter-dot n-doping

KA Sablon, JW Little, V Mitin, A Sergeev… - … Nano) Photonic and …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We investigated the effects of doping on the photovoltaic efficiency in a GaAs reference cell,
and in undoped, n-doped, and p-doped InAs/GaAs quantum-dot (QD) solar cells. We found …

Fabrication of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells with enhanced photocurrent and without degradation of open circuit voltage

D Guimard, R Morihara, D Bordel, K Tanabe… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We report the fabrication of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) with enhanced
photocurrent and no degradation in open circuit voltage (V OC) compared to a solar cell …

Theoretical investigation of some parameters into the behavior of quantum dot solar cells

A Nasr, A Aly - Journal of Semiconductors, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The main goal of this paper is to determine the accurate values of two parameters namely
the surface generation—recombination rate and the average total number of electrons …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-stacked InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown with different growth modes for quantum dot solar cells

Y Kim, KY Ban, CB Honsberg - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the material properties and device performance of InAs/GaAs quantum dot
solar cells (QDSCs) made using three different QD growth modes: Stranski-Krastanov (SK) …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of cubic and spherical quantum dot size and size dispersion on the performance of quantum dot solar cells

TA Gatissa, TS Debela, BM Ali - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the effect of cubic and spherical quantum dot size and size dispersion (size
non-uniformity) on the absorption coefficient of a quantum dot ensemble. The absorption …

Enhanced performance of quantum dot solar cells based on type II quantum dots

F Xu, XG Yang, S Luo, ZR Lv, T Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The characteristics of quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) based on type II QDs are
investigated theoretically. Based on a drift-diffusion model, we obtained a much higher open …

Efficiency limit of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells attributed to quantum dot size effects

RP Smith, JS Kim, SK Noh, SJ Lee, CL Lee… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
The effects of quantum dot (QD) size on the optical and electrical properties of InAs/GaAs
QD solar cells (QDSCs) were investigated. QDSCs with varying InAs QD size were …

Effect of rapid thermal annealing on InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells

PM Lam, J Wu, S Hatch, D Kim, M Tang… - IET …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of post‐growth annealing on InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) is
studied. A significant improvement in photoemission, photocurrent density and spectral …