Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Plasmonic Photovoltaics Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter

Start Date: September 2008

Investigators

Gavin Conibeer, Martin A. Green, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Antonio Marti and Antonio Luque, Instituto de Energia Solar, Madrid; Jean-Francois Guillemoles, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Timothy Schmidt, University of Sydney

Annual Reports

Publications

Le Bris, A., L. Lombez, S. Laribi, G. Boissier, P. Christol, and J-F. Guillemoles. "Thermalisation rate study of GaSb-based heterostructures by continuous wave photoluminescence and their potential as hot carrier solar cell absorbers." Energy and Environmental Science 5, no. 3 (2012): 6225-6232.
König, D., K. Casalenuovo, Y. Takeda, G. Conibeer, J. F. Guillemoles, R. Patterson, L. M. Huang, and M. A. Green. "Hot carrier solar cells: Principles, materials and design." Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 42, no. 10 (2010): 2862-2866.
Clady, R., M. J. Y. Tayebjee, P. Aliberti, D. König, N. John E-D., G. J. Conibeer, T. W. Schmidt, and M. A. Green. "Interplay between the hot phonon effect and intervalley scattering on the cooling rate of hot carriers in GaAs and InP." Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 20, no. 1 (2011): 82-92.
Feng, Y., P. Aliberti, B. P. Veettil, R. Patterson, S. Shrestha, M. A. Green, and G. Conibeer. "Non-ideal energy selective contacts and their effect on the performance of a hot carrier solar cell with an indium nitride absorber." Applied Physics Letters 100, no. 5 (2012): 053502-053502.
Clady, R., M. J. Y. Tayebjee, P. Aliberti, D. König, N. J. Ekins-Daukes, G. J. Conibeer, T. W. Schmidt, and M. A. Green. “Interplay between hot phonon effect and Intervalley scattering on the cooling rate of hot carriers in GaAs and InP,” Progress in Photovoltaics (accepted March 2011).
Green, M. A., G. Conibeer, D. König, S.Shrestha, S. Huang, P. Aliberti, L. Treiber, R. Patterson, B. P. Veettil, A. Hsieh, A. Luque, A. Marti, P. G. Linares, E. Cánovas, E. Antoíín, D. Fuertes Marrón, C. Tablero, E. Hernández, J-F. Guillemoles, L. Huang, T. Schmidt, R. Clady, and M. Tayebjee. “Recent progress with hot carrier solar cells,” Progress in Photovoltaics (in press, 2011).
König, D., K.Casalenuovo, Y. Takeda, G. Conibeer, J-F. Guillemoles, R. Patterson, L. M. Huang, and M. A. Green. “Hot carrier solar cells: Principles, materials and design,” Physica E (in press, 2011)
Aliberti, P., Y. Feng, Y. Takeda, S. K. Shrestha, M. A. Green, and G. Conibeer. “Investigation of theoretical efficiency limit of hot carriers solar cells with a bulk indium nitride absorber,” Journal of Applied Physics, 108, 094507 (2010).
Patterson, R., M. Kirkengen, B. Puthen Veettil, D. König, M. A. Green, and G. Conibeer. “Phonon lifetimes in model quantum dot superlattice systems with applications to the hot carrier solar cell,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 94, 1931-1935, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2010.06.030 (2010).
Takeda, Y., T. Motohiro, D. König, P. Aliberti, Y. Feng, S. Shrestha, and G. Conibeer. “Practical factors lowering conversion efficiency of hot carrier solar cells,” Applied Physics Express, 3, 104301, doi: 10.1143/APEX.3.104301 (2010).
Aliberti, P., S. K. Shrestha, R. Teuscher, B. Zhang, M. A. Green, and G. J. Conibeer. “Study of silicon quantum dots in a SiO2 matrix for energy selective contacts applications,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 94, 1936-194, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2010.06.024 (2010).
Shrestha, S. K., P. Aliberti, and G. J. Conibeer. “Energy selective contacts for hot carrier solar cells,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 94, 1546-1550, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.031 (2010).
Paire, M., L. Lombez, J-F. Guillemoles, and D. Lincot. “Towards microscale Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells for efficient conversion and optimized material usage: theoretical evaluation,” Journal of Applied Physics, 108, 034907, doi: 10.1063/1.3460629 (2010).
Guillemoles, J-F. “The quest for very high efficiency in photovoltaic energy conversion,” Journal of Europhysics News, 1/2, 19-22, doi: 10.1051/epn/2010203 (2010).
Le Bris, A. and J-F. Guillemoles. “Hot Carrier Solar cells: achievable efficiencies accounting for main thermalisation paths,” Applied Phys. Letters, 97, 113506, doi: 10.1063/1.3489405 (2010).
Slaoui, A. and J. F Guillemoles. “Nanostructured solar cell materials for high efficiency photovoltaics: dream or reality?” Actualités chimiques, l’actualité chimique, 331, doi: 10.1002/pip.916 (2009).
Conibeer, G., N. Ekins-Daukes, J-F. Guillemoles, D. Kőnig, E-C. Cho, C-W. Jiang, S. Shrestha, and M. Green. “Progress on hot carrier cells,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 93, 713, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2008.09.034 (2009).
Conibeer, G., D. König, M. A. Green, and J. F. Guillemoles. “Slowing of carrier cooling in hot carrier solar cells,” Thin Sol. Films, 516, 6948-6953, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.102 (2008).
Luque, A. and A. Martí, “Ultra-high efficiency solar cells: the path for mass penetration of solar electricity” Electronic Letters, 44, 16 (2008).
Luque, A. and A. Marti. “Electron–phonon energy transfer in hot-carrier solar cells.” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 94, pp. 287–296, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2009.10.001 (2010).
König, D., K. Casalenuovo, Y. Takeda, G. Conibeer, J. F. Guillemoles, R. Patterson, L. M. Huang, and M. A. Green. “Hot carrier solar cells: Principles, materials and design.” Physica E, doi:10.1016/j.physe.2009.12.032 (In press, 15th Jan. 2010).
Conibeer, G., R. Patterson, L. Huang, J-F. Guillemoles, D. König, S. Shrestha, M. A. Green. “Modelling of hot carrier solar cell absorbers.” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2010.01.018 (In press, corrected proof available online February 2010).
Conibeer, G., N. J. Ekins-Daukes, J-F. Guillemoles, D. König, E-C. Cho, C-W. Jiang, S. Shrestha, and M. A. Green. “Progress on hot carrier cells.” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 93, No. 6-7, 713-719, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2008.09.034 (2009).
Takeda, Y., T. Ito, T. Motohiro, D. König, S. Shrestha, and G. Conibeer. “Hot carrier solar cells operating under practical conditions.” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, No. 7, 074905, doi:10.1063/1.3086447 (2009).
Luque, A. and A. Marti. “Ultra-high efficiency solar cells: the path for mass penetration of solar electricity.” Electronics Letters, Vol. 44, No. 16, pp. 943-945, doi:10.1049/el:20081154 (2008).

Updated January 2013