Tag: Solar Cells

Hot Carrier Solar Cells and Non-Equilibrium Phonons

Dr. David Ferry, Arizona State University March 4, 2021 Hot carrier solar cells were predicted to surpass the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit almost four decades ago. To achieve this required drastically reducing the energy loss to the optical phonons in electron and hole relaxation and extracting the hot carriers directly from the device. Unfortunately, these proposed […]