@inproceedings{5045eeb1dec64b06aa37e3242b966d6a,
title = "Hot-carrier effects in type II heterostructures",
abstract = "Hot-carrier solar cells have high theoretical limiting efficiency however, absorber materials with slow carrier thermalization remain a development barrier for these devices. In previous studies, charge separation in core-shell colloidal quantum dots has been shown to result in slow carrier relaxation. Charge separation also occurs in III-V heterostructures with type-II band alignments. We characterize hot-carrier effects in InAlAs/InP and InAlAs/InGaAsP quantum well structures, with type-II and quasi-type-II band alignments respectively. InGaAsP is identified as a promising hot-carrier absorber candidate, with thermalization coefficient 1.77±0.12 W.K-1.cm-2, corresponding to limiting solar conversion efficiency >42\%, under 2000X.",
keywords = "Hot-carrier solar cell, InGaAsP, InP, type II band alignment",
author = "Hirst, \{Louise C.\} and Yakes, \{Michael K.\} and Affouda, \{Chaffra A.\} and Bailey, \{Christopher G.\} and Tischler, \{Joseph G.\} and Hamidreza Esmaielpour and Whiteside, \{Vincent R.\} and Sellers, \{Ian R.\} and Lumb, \{Matthew P.\} and Forbes, \{David V.\} and Walters, \{Robert J.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 ; Conference date: 14-06-2015 Through 19-06-2015",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356231",
language = "English",
series = "2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015",
address = "United States",
}