Upper limit to the photovoltaic efficiency of imperfect crystals from first principles

• DOI: 10.1039/d0ee00291g
• Publication Date: 2020-03-09T16:03:15Z
• Authors: Sunghyun Kim; José A. Márquez; Thomas Unold; Aron Walsh
• Keywords: Solar cells of the next generation; Technology; Engineering, Chemical; CARRIER-CAPTURE; Energy & Fuels; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; ENERGY-CONVERSION; RECOMBINATION; FOS: Physical sciences; Chemical; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; 530; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Engineering; Condensed Matter - Materials Science; Multidisciplinary; Science & Technology; Energy; 500; Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); SOLAR-CELL; Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); cond-mat.mtrl-sci; 0104 chemical sciences; Chemistry; physics.comp-ph; Physical Sciences; POINT-DEFECTS; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Physics - Computational Physics; Environmental Sciences

An approach is proposed to predict the impact of point defects on solar cell performance.