Nanotechnology and photovoltaic devices : light energy harvesting with group IV nanostructures /

Silicon is an abundant element and is produced in large quantities for the electronic industry. The falling price of this commodity also feeds the growth of solar photovoltaics (PV). However, solar cells (SCs) based on bulk semiconductors have quite limited maximum attainable performance. Therefore,...

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Other Authors: Valenta, Jan (Editor), Mirabella, Salvo (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press LLC, [2015]
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction to photovoltaics and potential applications of group IV nanostructures / Jan Valenta and Salvo Mirabella -- 2. The Dielectric function and spectrophotometry : from bulk to nanostructure / Caterina Summonte -- 3. Ab initio calculations of the electronic and optical properties of silicon quantum dots embedded in different matrices / Roberto Guerra and Stefano Ossicini -- 4. Silicon nanoclusters embedded in dielectric matrices : nucleation, growth, and crystallization, and defects / Daniel Hiller -- 5. Excited-state relaxation in group IV nanocrystals investigated using optical methods / František Trojánek, Petr Malý, and Ivan Pelant -- 6. Carrier multiplication in isolated and interacting silicon nanocrystals / Ivan Marri, Marco Govoni, and S. Ossicini -- 7. The introduction of majority carriers into group IV nanocrystals / Dirk König -- 8. Electrical transport in Si-based nanostructured superlattices / Blas Garrido, Sergi Hernández, Yonder Berencén, Julian Lópoz-Vidrier, Joan Manel Ramírez, Oriol Blázquez, and Bernat Mundet -- 9. Ge nanostructures for harvesting and detection of light / Antonio Terrasi, Salvatore Cosentino, Isodiana Crupi, and Salvo Mirabella -- 10. Application of surface-engineered silicon nanocrystals with quantum confinement and nanocarbon materials in solar cells / Vladimir Svrcek and Davide Mariotti -- 11. Prototype PV cells with Si nanoclusters / Stefan Janz, Philipp Löper, and Manuel Schnabel. 
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