Limiting efficiencies of solar energy conversion and photo-detection via internal emission of hot electrons and hot holes in gold

We evaluate the limiting efficiency of full and partial solar spectrum harvesting via the process of internal photoemission in Au-semiconductor Schottky junctions. Our results based on the ab initio calculations of the electron density of states (e-DOS) reveal that the limiting efficiency of the ful...

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Main Authors: Hsu, Wei-Chun, Liao, Bolin, Boriskina, Svetlana V, Zhou, Jiawei, Chen, Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107779
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-5688
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530