A green campus project and advances in semiconductor nanostructures for photovoltaic applications

Author

Deli Wang ; Washom, B. ; Yu, E.T. ; Yu, Paul K. L.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We provide an overview of the various campus wide “Green” projects at the University of California, San Diego aiming for higher energy saving and efficiency for buildings and facilities. We present results on novel photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells based on semiconductor nanostructures, including compound semiconductor quantum wells and Si-based nanowires, for solar energy generation and storage.

Keywords

building management systems; elemental semiconductors; energy conservation; nanowires; photoelectrochemical cells; semiconductor quantum wells; silicon; solar cells; Green Campus Project; Si; Si-based nanowires; University of California; building efficiency; compound semiconductor quantum well; energy saving; photoelectrochemical cell; photovoltaic application; photovoltaic cell; semiconductor nanostructure; solar energy generation; solar energy storage; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Quantum well devices; Silicon; Substrates; Zinc oxide; Quantum well; Sustainability; nanowire; photoelectrochemical cell; photovoltaics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2474-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2012.6467667

Filename

6467667