Emerging Strategies to Reduce Transmission and Thermalization Losses in Solar Cells

Redefining the Limits of Solar Power Conversion Efficiency
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-70360-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 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.

Madsen, Morten

Lissau, Jonas Sandby

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Solar cell e!ciency and routes beyond current limits.- Part I: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption via triplet fusion in organic materials.- Photophysics.- Near-infrared-to-visible photon upconversion.- Photon upconversion based on sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation (sTTA) in solids.- Organic triplet photosensitizers for triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion.- Plasmon-enhanced homogeneous and heterogeneous triplet–triplet annihilation.- Part II: Molecular oxygen and triplets – photophysics and protective strategies.- Molecular Oxygen in Photoresponsive Organic Materials.- Protective Strategies towards Long-term Operation of Annihilation Photon Energy Upconversion.- Additive-assisted stabilization against photooxidation of organic and hybrid solar cells.- Part III: Implementation of photochemical upconversion in solar cells.- Optically-coupled Upconversion Solar Cells.- Electronically-coupled TTA-UC Solar Cells.- Part IV: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption in rare earth ions.- Rare-earth ion based photon up-conversion for transmission-loss reduction in solar cells.- Nanophotonics for photon upconversion enhancement.- Part V: Addressing thermalisation losses – singlet fission and quantum cutting.- Singlet fission – mechanisms and molecular design.- Singlet fission solar cells.

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.