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Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Nanomaterials | Nanotechnology | Photovoltaic devices (solar cells) | Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Photonic and electro-optical devices sensors and systems (excl. communications) | Compound semiconductors |
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Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 11-08-2014
DOI: 10.1063/1.4893158
Abstract: The rates of charge carrier relaxation by phonon emission are of substantial importance in the field of hot carrier solar cell, primarily in investigation of mechanisms to slow down hot carrier cooling. In this work, energy and momentum resolved deformation potentials relevant to electron-phonon scattering are computed for wurtzite InN and GaN as well as an InN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) superlattice using ab-initio methods. These deformation potentials reveal important features such as discontinuities across the electronic bandgap of the materials and variations over tens of eV. The energy dependence of the deformation potential is found to be very similar for wurtzite nitrides despite differences between the In and Ga pseudopotentials and their corresponding electronic band structures. Charge carrier relaxation by this mechanism is expected to be minimal for electrons within a few eV of the conduction band edge. However, hole scattering at energies more accessible to excitation by solar radiation is possible between heavy and light hole states. Moderate reductions in overall scattering rates are observed in MQW relative to the bulk nitride materials.
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 13-06-2018
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C7TC05366E
Abstract: Solar cells fabricated using modified AgBiS 2 nanocrystals achieved a PCE of 4.3%, which is a 30% improvement compared with conventional AgBiS 2 nanocrystal solar cells.
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 29-04-2020
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-01-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-20749-1
Abstract: All-inorganic CsPbI 3 perovskite quantum dots have received substantial research interest for photovoltaic applications because of higher efficiency compared to solar cells using other quantum dots materials and the various exciting properties that perovskites have to offer. These quantum dot devices also exhibit good mechanical stability amongst various thin-film photovoltaic technologies. We demonstrate higher mechanical endurance of quantum dot films compared to bulk thin film and highlight the importance of further research on high-performance and flexible optoelectronic devices using nanoscale grains as an advantage. Specifically, we develop a hybrid interfacial architecture consisting of CsPbI 3 quantum dot/PCBM heterojunction, enabling an energy cascade for efficient charge transfer and mechanical adhesion. The ch ion CsPbI 3 quantum dot solar cell has an efficiency of 15.1% (stabilized power output of 14.61%), which is among the highest report to date. Building on this strategy, we further demonstrate a highest efficiency of 12.3% in flexible quantum dot photovoltaics.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: OSA
Date: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-11-2021
Abstract: Herein, the impact and spin‐coating process of Nafion thin films on photonic nanowaveguide structures fabricated via a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor compatible process for the first time is investigated. Particularly, the effect of Nafion thin films (≈23–776 nm) on microring resonators (MRRs) with compact waveguide sizes (480 nm by 220 nm and 380 nm by 220 nm) is focused on, where the microring provides enhanced interactions between the Nafion and light, which is related to Nafion thin‐film properties such as the refractive index, water uptake, and swelling. The results demonstrate small, compact, and cost‐effective MRR devices to characterize Nafion thin film and high‐resolution on‐chip humidity sensing for real‐time and continuous measurements.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.BIORTECH.2017.06.126
Abstract: A novel light-to-bioenergy system produced 3.5 times the baseline methane output using a co-culture of cyanobacteria (Oscillatoria sp.) and a methanogenic microbial community. Analysis of micronutrients in the system during the growth phase indicated that cobalt, iron, nickel and zinc were not appreciably consumed. The stable consumption and return of macronutrients calcium and magnesium were also observed. Essential macronutrients nitrogen, in the form of nitrate, and phosphorus showed no cycling during the growth phase and were depleted at rates of 0.35mg/L/day and 0.40µg/L/day, respectively. Biofilm formation increased the resilience of biomass to bacterial degradation in an anaerobic digester, as shown by viability assays of cyanobacterial biofilms in the co-culture.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00728D
Abstract: Improvements in charge carrier transport and equivalent photoluminescence were obtained for CuInS 2 nanoparticles with Ag-surface termination in photovoltaic devices.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 09-05-2017
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 14-04-2014
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871576
Abstract: Modulation doping, an effective way to dope quantum dots (QDs), modifies the confinement energy levels in the QDs. We present a self-consistent full multi-grid solver to analyze the effect of modulation doping on the confinement energy levels in large-area structures containing Si QDs in SiO2 and Si3N4 dielectrics. The confinement energy was found to be significantly lower when QDs were in close proximity to dopant ions in the dielectric. This effect was found to be smaller in Si3N4, while smaller QDs in SiO2 were highly susceptible to energy reduction. The energy reduction was found to follow a power law relationship with the QD size.
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 24-12-2019
Abstract: The unique tunable bandgaps and straightforward synthesis of colloidal quantum dots make them promising low-cost materials for photovoltaics. High-performance colloidal quantum dot solar cells rely on good-quality electron transporting layers (ETLs) to make carrier selective contacts. Despite extensive use of n-type oxides as ETLs, a detailed understanding of their surface and interface states as well as mechanisms to improve their optical properties are still under development. Here, we report a simple procedure to produce MgCl
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 28-10-2014
DOI: 10.1063/1.4899207
Abstract: Efficient iso-entropic energy filtering of electronic waves can be realized through nanostructures with three dimensional confinement, such as quantum dot resonant tunneling structures. Large-area deployment of such structures is useful for energy selective contacts but such configuration is susceptible to structural disorders. In this work, the transport properties of quantum-dot-based wide-area resonant tunneling structures, subject to realistic disorder mechanisms, are studied. Positional variations of the quantum dots are shown to reduce the resonant transmission peaks while size variations in the device are shown to reduce as well as broaden the peaks. Increased quantum dot size distribution also results in a peak shift to lower energy which is attributed to large dots dominating transmission. A decrease in barrier thickness reduces the relative peak height while the overall transmission increases dramatically due to lower “series resistance.” While any shift away from ideality can be intuitively expected to reduce the resonance peak, quantification allows better understanding of the tolerances required for fabricating structures based on resonant tunneling phenomena.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 07-06-2018
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C7NR07567G
Abstract: Photoexcited carriers are mainly excitons in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well planar layers while free electron holes are greatly increased in nanorods.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 22-04-2014
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 21-11-2018
Abstract: The charge-storage kinetics of amorphous TiO
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC06495D
Abstract: PbSe quantum dots are mixed into PbS quantum dots to form mixed quantum dots for enhancing device performance in optoelectronic applications due to improved charge mobility in solid films.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA13499D
Abstract: High resolution of EDX image shows the bromine located on same position of PbS quantum dot.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1039/C8SE00354H
Abstract: Cyanobacteria grown in nitrogen-rich industrial wastewater showed increased productivity and higher methane yields when used as a feedstock for methanogenesis.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 30-01-2012
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680594
Abstract: The hot carrier solar cell is a third generation photovoltaic device that extracts photo-generated carriers before they thermalise. In this work, the efficiency of a hot carrier solar cell with a 50 nm indium nitride (InN) absorber layer has been calculated, taking into account the realistic transport properties of energy selective contacts. The cell performance has been modeled considering the carrier extraction through contacts as ballistic. A potential practical implementation of a hot carrier solar cell, with contacts based on an InXGa1−XN/InN/InXGa1−XN quantum well structure, has been proposed, with calculated maximum efficiency of 37.15% under 1000 suns.
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 23-11-2011
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA20165B
Abstract: PbS QDs are studied as attractive candidates to be applied as hot carrier solar cell absorbers.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 08-09-2015
DOI: 10.1117/12.2187592
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 15-10-2012
DOI: 10.1117/12.928459
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 02-01-2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2283318
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC03599G
Abstract: The antimony-doped tin oxide buffer layer greatly improve the extraction of carriers in a PbSe QD solar cell.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 17-10-2014
DOI: 10.1117/12.2067926
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 23-02-2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2251197
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 12-09-2019
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.JPCLETT.9B02423
Abstract: Colloidal quantum dot solids are attractive candidates for tandem solar cells because of their widely tunable bandgaps. However, the development of the quantum dot tandem solar cell has lagged far behind that of its single-junction counterpart. One of the fundamental problems with colloidal quantum dot solar cells is the relatively small diffusion length, which limits the quantum dot absorbing layer thickness and hence the power conversion efficiency. In this research, guided by optical modeling and utilizing a graded band alignment strategy, a two-terminal monolithic solution-processed quantum dot tandem solar cell has been successfully fabricated and a power conversion efficiency of 6.8% has been achieved. The band grading approach utilized the complementary tuning of work functions and band alignment through judicious choices of the nanoparticle surface chemistry and quantum dot confined size. This work demonstrates a general approach to improving the efficiency for tandem thin-film solar cells.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 28-04-2013
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802683
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-01-2018
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 26-11-2014
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1039/C7NR05247B
Abstract: The carrier dynamics of lead sulphide quantum dot (PbS QD) drop cast films and closely packed ordered Langmuir–Blodgett films are studied with ultra-fast femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 02-01-2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2283328
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C7TA11154A
Abstract: Partial replacement of Pb in CsPbI 3 perovskite solar cells with Ca enhances power conversion efficiency to 13.5% under reverse scan (stabilised at 13.3%), without sacrificing stability.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 16-02-2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2249931
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 02-02-2017
DOI: 10.1063/1.4975408
Abstract: Silicon nanocrystals embedded in a dielectric matrix have been considered a potential candidate for many optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications and have been under vigorous study in recent years. One of the main properties of interest in this application is the absorption bandgap, which is determined by the quantum confinement of silicon nanocrystals. The ability to predict the absorption bandgap is a key step in designing an optimum solar cell using this material. Although several higher level algorithms are available to predict the electronic confinement in these nanocrystals, most of them make regular-shape assumptions for the ease of computation. In this work, we present a model for the accurate prediction of the quantum confinement in silicon nanocrystals of non-regular shape by employing an efficient, self-consistent Full-Multi-Grid method. Confined energies in spherical, elongated, and arbitrarily shaped nanocrystals are calculated. The excited level calculations quantify the wavefunction coupling and energy level splitting arising due to the proximity of dots. The splitting magnitude was found to be as high as 0.1 eV for the 2 nm size silicon quantum dots. The decrease in confinement energy due to the elongation of dots was found to be more than 0.2 eV, and the trend was similar for different dielectric materials. Theoretical predictions were compared to the results from optical and structural characterisation and found to be in agreement. The loss of degeneracy in highly asymmetric quantum dots, such as a “horse-shoe” shaped quantum dot, significantly affects the excited state energies.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.JCIS.2017.06.017
Abstract: Cesium lead halide (CsPbX
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 17-02-2011
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/12/125204
Abstract: Thin films composed of Ge nanocrystals embedded in an amorphous SiO(2) matrix (Ge-NC TFs) were prepared using a low temperature in situ growth method. Unexpected high p-type conductivity was observed in the intrinsic Ge-NC TFs. Unintentional doping from shallow dopants was excluded as a candidate mechanism of hole generation. Instead, the p-type characteristic was attributed to surface state induced hole accumulation in NCs, and the hole conduction was found to be a thermally activated process involving charge hopping from one NC to its nearest neighbor. Theoretical analysis has shown that the density of surface states in Ge-NCs is sufficient to induce adequate holes for measured conductivity. The film conductivity can be improved significantly by post-growth rapid thermal annealing and this effect is explained by a simple thermodynamic model. The impact of impurities on the conduction properties was also studied. Neither compensation nor enhancement in conduction was observed in the Sb- and Ga-doped Ge-NC TFs, respectively. This could be attributed to the fact that these impurities are no longer shallow dopants in NCs and are much less likely to be effectively activated. Finally, the photovoltaic effect of heterojunction diodes employing such Ge-NC TFs was characterized in order to demonstrate its functionality in device implementation.
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 17-06-2013
DOI: 10.1063/1.4811263
Abstract: The performance of hot carrier solar cells has been analyzed using a model incorporating the relaxation times of the relevant electronic processes. The variations in the maximum efficiency as well as the carrier statistics are demonstrated according to different carrier-carrier scattering rates. The significant dependance of cell performances on Coulomb scattering properties is quantitatively demonstrated and explained by carrier depletion, asymmetric electron and hole statistics, and unmatched transmission properties for carrier extraction. The inter-relation between the electronic properties of the absorber material and the contact properties implies that an integrated design with both parts is required.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-09-0044
Abstract: Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are promising candidate materials for photovoltaics (PV) owing to the tunable bandgap and low-cost solution processability. Lead selenide (PbSe) QDs are particularly attractive to PV applications due to the efficient multiple-exciton generation and carrier transportation. However, surface defects arising from the oxidation of the PbSe QDs have been the major limitation for their development in PV. Here, a new passivation method for chlorinated PbSe QDs via ion exchange with cesium lead halide (Br, I) perovskite nanocrystals is reported. The surface chloride ions on the as-synthesized QDs can be partially exchanged with bromide or iodide ions from the perovskite nanocrystals, hence forming a hybrid halide passivation. Consistent with the improved photoluminescence quantum yield, the ch ion PV device fabricated with these PbSe QDs achieves a PCE of 8.2%, compared to 7.3% of that fabricated with the untreated QDs. This new method also leads to devices with excellent air-stability, retaining at least 93% of their initial PCEs after being stored in ambient conditions for 57 d. This is considered as the first reported PbSe QD solar cell with a PCE of over 8% to date.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 23-01-2017
DOI: 10.1063/1.4974478
Abstract: Inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) on an In0.17Ga0.83As/GaAs0.8P0.2 multiple quantum well (MQW) superlattice has been conducted to investigate the potential for phonon bottlenecks in low dimensional materials. This work shows that the measured spectra are in good agreement with an adiabatic bond charge model prediction and back-folded phonon modes make large contributions to the broadening of peaks observed in the spectra. The high-lying mode at 45 meV in the MQW is attributed to vibrations of Ga and P and confirmed by both experiment and theory. The acoustic phonons have a dominant contribution from the Ga and As components, and the contribution from InAs is small and only visible at around 29.7 meV. Low energy optical modes resulting from back-folding might be a key to increased electron-phonon coupling in the material system. The suitability of utilizing IXS as a means to investigate phonon modes in low dimensional materials is also discussed.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 25-04-2019
Abstract: Cs
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