Non-ideal energy selective contacts and their effect on the performance of a hot carrier solar cell with an indium nitride absorber

Y. Feng; P. Aliberti; B. P. Veettil; R. Patterson; S. Shrestha; M. A. Green; G. Conibeer

doi:10.1063/1.3680594

Non-ideal energy selective contacts and their effect on the performance of a hot carrier solar cell with an indium nitride absorber

Y. Feng^*, P. Aliberti, B. P. Veettil, R. Patterson, S. Shrestha, M. A. Green, G. Conibeer

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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 In _XGa _1-XN/InN/In _XGa _1-XN quantum well structure, has been proposed, with calculated maximum efficiency of 37.15 under 1000 suns.

Original language	English
Article number	053502
Pages (from-to)	053502-1-053502-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	100
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3680594
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2012
Externally published	Yes

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