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Quantitative experimental assessment of hot carrier-enhanced solar cells at room temperature

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In common photovoltaic devices, the part of the incident energy above the absorption threshold quickly ends up as heat, whichlimits their maximum achievable efficiency to far below the thermodynamic limit for solar energy conversion. Conversely, the conversion of the excess kinetic energy of the photogenerated carriers into additional free energy would be sufficient to approach the thermodynamic limit. This is the principle of hot carrier devices. Unfortunately, such device operation in conditions relevant for utilization has never been evidenced. Here, we show that the quantitative thermodynamic study of the hot carrier population, with luminance measurements, allows us to discuss the hot carrier contribution to the solar cell performance. We demonstrate that the voltage and current can be enhanced in a semiconductor heterostructure due to the presence of the hot carrier population in a single InGaAsP quantum well at room temperature. These experimental results substantiate the potential of increasing photovoltaic performances in the hot carrier regime.
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hal-02181013 , version 1 (03-11-2019)

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Dac-Trung Nguyen, Laurent Lombez, François Gibelli, Soline Boyer-Richard, Alain Le Corre, et al.. Quantitative experimental assessment of hot carrier-enhanced solar cells at room temperature. Nature Energy, 2018, 3, pp.236-242. ⟨10.1038/s41560-018-0106-3⟩. ⟨hal-02181013⟩
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