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Emerging PV Nanomaterials: Capabilities Versus Recombination Losses

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High-Efficiency Solar Cells

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Suppressing recombination processes and improving the minority carrier lifetime are critical for enhancing the performance of solar cells. Analysis of the balance between generation, recombination, and transport and its effect on the photocurrent and open circuit voltage of solar cells as well as a review of modern approaches employed to overcome the Shockley–Queisser limit are presented.

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Special thanks to P. Wijewarnasuriya, J. Little, V. Mitin, and N. Vagidov for valuable discussions. The work described herein was supported by the ARO, AFOSR, and the National Science Foundation.

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Sablon, K.A., Sergeev, A. (2014). Emerging PV Nanomaterials: Capabilities Versus Recombination Losses. In: Wang, X., Wang, Z. (eds) High-Efficiency Solar Cells. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01988-8_3

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