Emerging Strategies to Reduce Transmission and Thermalization Losses in Solar Cells

Redefining the Limits of Solar Power Conversion Efficiency
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-70357-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 711 g

The book describes emerging strategies to circumvent transmission and thermalization losses in solar cells, and thereby redefine the limits of solar power conversion efficiency. These strategies include the use of organic molecules and rare-earth metal materials. Approaches to augment the efficiency of these processes via near-field enhancement are described as well. This book includes a discussion of state-of-the-art implementations of these emerging strategies in solar cells, both internally, as in molecular intermediate band and charge carrier multiplication, and externally, such as photon up- and down-conversion. Tools for characterization are also provided.  Written by leading researchers in the field, this book can be useful to both beginners and experienced researchers in solar energy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lissau, Jonas Sandby

Madsen, Morten

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Energiewirtschaft: Alternative & Erneuerbare Energien
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energieeffizienz
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Solar cell e!ciency and routes beyond current limits
By Jonas Sandby Lissau and Morten Madsen
References
Part I: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption via triplet fusion in organic materials

2 Photophysics
By Nancy Awwad, Mo Yang, and Felix N. Castellano

3 Near-infrared-to-visible photon upconversion
By Nobuhiro Yanai

4 Photon upconversion based on sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation
(sTTA) in solids
By Angelo Monguzzi

5 Organic triplet photosensitizers for triplet-triplet annihilation
upconversion
By Zafar Mahmood, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao, Mushraf Hussain, Farhan
Sadiq, Noreen Rehmat, and Muhammad Imran

6 Plasmon-enhanced homogeneous and heterogeneous triplet–triplet
annihilation
By Emily Westbrook, Xian Cao, and Peng Zhang
Part II: Molecular oxygen and triplets – photophysics and protective strategies

7 Molecular Oxygen in Photoresponsive Organic Materials
By Mikkel Bregnhøj and Peter R. Ogilby
8 Protective Strategies towards Long-term Operation of Annihilation
Photon Energy Upconversion
By Stanislav Baluschev

9 Additive-assisted stabilization against photooxidation of organic
and hybrid solar cells
By Michela Prete, Um Kanta Aryal, Jonas Sandby Lissau, Morten Madsen,
Vida Turkovic

Part III: Implementation of photochemical upconversion in solar cells

10 Optically-coupled Upconversion Solar Cells
By Laszlo Frazer and Timothy W. Schmidt

11 Electronically-coupled TTA-UC Solar Cells
By Yan Zhou and Kenneth Hanson

Part IV: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption in rare earth ions

12 Rare-earth ion based photon up-conversion for transmission-loss
reduction in solar cells
By Hai-Qiao Wang, Andres Osvet, Miroslaw Batentschuk, and Christoph J.
Brabec

13 Nanophotonics for photon upconversion enhancement
By Wounjhang Park, Ananda Das, and Kyuyoung Bae

Part V Addressing thermalisation losses – singlet fission and quantum cutting

14 Singlet fission – mechanisms and molecular design
By Victor Gray, Leah Weiss, and Akshay Rao

15 Singlet fission solar cells
By Bruno Ehrler

Über Autor(innen)

Morten Madsen is Professor WSR at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where he is heading the organic photovoltaics research group.
Jonas Sandby Lissau is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark.