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Currents of solar cell explained by pinned charge density waves
- Source :
- Physica B: Condensed Matter. 405:941-943
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- We present a mechanism that explains currents in solar cells using charge density wave (CDW) concepts. We treated pinned CDWs as being equivalent to moving CDWs that have been confined within a typical quantum well, using the many different examples where pinning occurs at the barrier. The currents in the solar cells are not described in terms of the unique semiconductor difference between electrons and holes, but are instead explained by making use of pinned CDWs in terms of the electrons contained therein, with a potential barrier that is lower than the energy gap in the solar cell material. The mechanism of the function of the solar cell is thus herein ascribed to the transport of pinned CDWs. The functions of solar cells are indispensable with impurities in the case of our CDW model different from conventional explanation.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Theory of solar cells
Condensed matter physics
Band gap
business.industry
Charge density
Electron
Condensed Matter Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
law.invention
Semiconductor
law
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
Solar cell
Rectangular potential barrier
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Charge density wave
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09214526
- Volume :
- 405
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physica B: Condensed Matter
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bfaac29ce1198b610917e370e44e7594
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2009.10.020