Efficient, broadband and wide-angle hot-electron transduction using metal-semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials

M Sakhdari, M Hajizadegan, M Farhat, PY Chen - Nano Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Hot-electron devices are emerging as promising candidates for the transduction of optical
radiation into electrical current, as they enable photodetection and solar/infrared energy …

Strain-Dependent Effects on Confinement of Folded Acoustic and Optical Phonons in Short-Period (XC)m/(YC)n with X,Y (≡Si, Ge, Sn) Superlattices

DN Talwar, S Semone, P Becla - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Carbon-based novel low-dimensional XC/YC (with X, Y≡ Si, Ge, and Sn) heterostructures
have recently gained considerable scientific and technological interest in the design of …

The effects of intraband and interband carrier‐carrier scattering on hot‐carrier solar cells: A theoretical study of spectral hole burning, electron‐hole energy transfer …

CY Tsai - Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of carrier‐carrier scattering resulting from the Coulomb‐potential interaction
between two electrons on hot‐carrier solar cells are theoretically studied. Theoretical …

Synergy effect of intraband transition and impact-Auger in optical hot-carrier solar cells

Y Takeda - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
An optical hot-carrier solar cell (opt-HC-SC) is a variant of hot-carrier solar cells (HC-SCs).
Hot luminescence in a specific narrow energy range is enhanced and extracted from the …

Third Generation Approaches for Low Cost, Radiation Tolerant, Efficienct Space Solar Cells

G Conibeer, S Shrestha - 2023 IEEE 50th Photovoltaic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The large increase in space missions in the next decade represents a large increase in
space PV demand. These cells must be relatively cheap but also radiation resistant. Some …

Theoretical investigation of carrier transfer by an optical contacting scheme for optoelectronic application

J Yang, R Ge, Z Zhang, W Chen, B Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
As a promising charge carrier transfer scheme, optical coupling could potentially improve
the performance of an optoelectronic device for energy harvesting based on well developed …

The role of remote valleys in photovoltaic devices

A Sharma - 2023 - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
Hot carriers in semiconductors are charge carriers with significant excess kinetic energy
above the band edge, typically corresponding to a carrier temperature greater than the …

[PDF][PDF] Nitrides and Oxynitrides of Hafnium and Zirconium: Simulation, Synthesis and Characterisation from the Hot Carrier Solar Cell Perspective

B Thapa - 2021 - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
Hot carrier solar cell (HCSC) is a novel photovoltaic concept which has limiting energy
conversion efficiency (ECE) over 65% at one sun and over 85% at the maximum sunlight …