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Observation of infrared absorption of InAs quantum dot structures in AlGaAs matrix toward high-efficiency solar cells
- Source :
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 57:062001
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2018.
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Abstract
- In accordance with the detailed balance limit model of single-intermediate-band solar cells (IBSCs), the optimum matrix bandgap and IB–conduction band (CB) energy gap are ~1.9 and 0.7 eV, respectively. We present the room-temperature polarized infrared absorption of 20 stacked InAs quantum dot (QD) structures in the Al0.32Ga0.68As matrix with a bandgap of ~1.9 eV for the design of high-efficiency IBSCs by using a multipass waveguide geometry. We find that the IB–CB absorption is almost independent of the light polarization, and estimate the magnitude of the absorption per QD layer to be ~0.01%. We also find that the IB–CB absorption edge of QD structures with a wide-gap matrix is ~0.41 eV. These results indicate that both the significant increase in the magnitude of IB–CB absorption and the lower energy of the IB state for the higher IB–CB energy gap are necessary toward the realization of high-efficiency IBSCs.
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Waveguide (electromagnetism)
Materials science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Band gap
business.industry
Shockley–Queisser limit
General Engineering
General Physics and Astronomy
Infrared spectroscopy
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Matrix (mathematics)
Absorption edge
Quantum dot
0103 physical sciences
Optoelectronics
0210 nano-technology
Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13474065 and 00214922
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........33e7c52c393fee3c8d374a5ab7945074