Modelling of quantum dot solar cells for concentrator PV applications

Ogura, A., Morioka, T., García-Linares Fontes, Pablo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-3017, Hernández Martín, Estela, Ramiro Gonzalez, Iñigo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-4002, Artacho Huertas, Irene ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0213-2966, Antolín Fernández, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-2849, Martí Vega, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8841-7091, Luque López, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8357-6413, Yamaguchi, Masafumi and Okada, Y. (2011). Modelling of quantum dot solar cells for concentrator PV applications. In: "37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011", 19/06/2011 - 24/06/2011, Seattle, EEUU. ISBN 978-1-4244-9965-6.

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Title: Modelling of quantum dot solar cells for concentrator PV applications
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Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011
Event Dates: 19/06/2011 - 24/06/2011
Event Location: Seattle, EEUU
Title of Book: Proceedings of 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4244-9965-6
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Faculty: E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM)
Department: Electrónica Física
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

An equivalent circuit model is applied in order to describe the operation characteristics of quantum dot intermediate band solar cells (QD-IBSCs), which accounts for the recombination paths of the intermediate band (IB) through conduction band (CB), the valence band (VB) through IB, and the VB-CB transition. In this work, fitting of the measured dark J-V curves for QD-IBSCs (QD region being non-doped or direct Si-doped to n-type) and a reference GaAs p-i-n solar cell (no QDs) were carried out using this model in order to extract the diode parameters. The simulation was then performed using the extracted diode parameters to evaluate solar cell characteristics under concentration. In the case of QDSC with Si-doped (hence partially-filled) QDs, a fast recovery of the open-circuit voltage (Voc) was observed in a range of low concentration due to the IB effect. Further, at around 100X concentration, Si-doped QDSC could outperform the reference GaAs p-i-n solar cell if the current source of IB current source were sixteen times to about 10mA/cm2 compared to our present cell.

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Item ID: 11604
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/11604/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:11604
Official URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?...
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 17 Jul 2012 09:22
Last Modified: 16 May 2018 07:09
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