Title :
A hot carrier solar cell device model using a coupled electron phonon energy balance model
Author :
Limpert, Steven ; Goodnick, Stephen ; Honsberg, C. ; Conibeer, G. ; Bremner, Stephen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Towards the goal of designing, building and optimizing an operational hot carrier solar cell, components of a hot carrier solar cell numerical device model have been developed and used to investigate the operation of the device. A coupled electron phonon energy balance model and an energy selective contact transport model have been written. An investigation using the energy selective contact transport model compared the performance of differing extraction barrier structures. A second investigation coupled the current calculating portion of the energy selective contact transport model to the electron phonon energy balance model to study the operation of these codependent device subsystems. In this paper, the construction of the energy selective contact transport model, and results from the two aforementioned investigations are given.
Keywords :
electron-phonon interactions; hot carriers; numerical analysis; solar cells; codependent device subsystems; coupled electron phonon energy balance model; energy selective contact transport model; hot carrier solar cell numerical device model; operational hot carrier solar cell; Current density; Heating; Hot carriers; Numerical models; Phonons; Photovoltaic cells; hot carrier solar cells; hot carriers; numerical models; numerical simulation; photovoltaic cells; resonant tunneling devices;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2013 IEEE 39th
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744322