All optical IBSC characterization method
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Rale, Pierre; Behaghel, Benoit; Chen, Hung-Ling; Delamarre, Amaury; Vandamme, Nicolas; Collin, Stephane; Tamaki, Ryo; Shoji, Yasushi; Okada, Yoshitaka; Lombez, Laurent; Guillemoles, J F
- Source
- 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2016 IEEE 43rd. :0013-0016 Jun, 2016
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Photovoltaic cells
Temperature measurement
Luminescence
Sociology
Statistics
Absorption
Laser excitation
- Language
In this work we study the carrier population dynamics in an AlGaAs p-i-n single junction solar cell with 10 layers of InAs quantum dots (QDs) in the i-region. Light management and band engineering technics were used to optimize intermediate band solar cells (IBSCs) operation. The IBSC operations are investigated through quantitative luminescence based characterization methods based on photoluminescence spectra recorded in absolute values and two-color excitation. The results show that the sample is compatible with the IBSC operations at room temperature.