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Impact of excitation energy on hot carrier properties in InGaAs multi-quantum well structure

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Hot carrier solar cells aim to overcome the theoretical limit of single-junction photovoltaic devices by suppressing the thermalization of hot carriers and extracting them through energy selective contacts. Designing efficient hot carrier absorbers requires further investigation on hot carrier properties in materials. Although the thermalization of hot carriers is responsible for a large portion of energy loss in solar cells, it is still one of the least understood phenomena in semiconductors. Here, the impact of excitation energy on the properties of photo-generated hot carriers in an InGaAs multi-quantum well (MQW) structure at various lattice temperatures and excitation powers is studied. Photoluminescence (PL) emission of the sample is detected by a hyperspectral luminescence imager, which creates spectrally and spatially resolved PL maps. The thermodynamic properties of hot carriers, such as temperature and quasi-Fermi level splitting, are carefully determined via applying full PL spectrum fitting, which solves the Fermi-Dirac integral and considers the band-filling effect in the nanostructured material. In addition, the impact of thermalized power density and carrier scattering with longitudinal optical phonons on the spectral linewidth broadening under two excitation energies is studied.
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hal-03277659 , version 1 (04-07-2021)

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Hamidreza Esmaielpour, Laurent Lombez, Maxime Giteau, Jean‐françois Guillemoles, Daniel Suchet. Impact of excitation energy on hot carrier properties in InGaAs multi-quantum well structure. Progress in Photovoltaics, In press, 30 (11), pp.1354-1362. ⟨10.1002/pip.3599⟩. ⟨hal-03277659⟩
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