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2 October 2024 Why III-V nanowires can challenge high-efficiency photovoltaic solar cells
Paola Prete, Nico Lovergine
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Abstract
Photovoltaic solar cells (SCs) based on dense arrays of III-V nanowires are believed to possess huge potentials for further improvement of their solar power conversion efficiency. A strategy to achieve this goal requires the exploitation of light wave-guiding mechanism and novel physical concepts. The former mechanism is demonstrated for GaAs- AlGaAs core-shell NWs: large enhancement (up to 200´ that of homogeneous – only core – nanowires) of the GaAs near band-edge absorption have been experimentally estimated and ascribed to a wave-guiding of incident light by the surrounding AlGaAs shell. Optimization of such absorption enhancement requires careful design and control of the AlGaAs shell thickness during nanowire self-assembly. Adoption of an intermediate-band gap semiconductor (IBGS) as the SC active material allows to combine the multiband absorption functionality of IBGS with advantages associated to nanowire-based SCs; the use of dilute nitrides III-V alloys within core-multishell NW-based SCs is a very promising solution. Advantages are briefly discussed, along with major challenges in self-assembling such nanowire by MOVPE.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Paola Prete and Nico Lovergine "Why III-V nanowires can challenge high-efficiency photovoltaic solar cells", Proc. SPIE 13114, Low-Dimensional Materials and Devices 2024, 1311405 (2 October 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029405
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KEYWORDS
Nanowires

Gallium arsenide

Solar cells

Light absorption

Photovoltaics

Semiconductors

Solar energy

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