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Quantum well (QW) structures are widely used in lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, modulators, enabling their monolithic integration on the same substrate. As optoelectronic systems evolve to meet the growing bandwidth demands in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yifan Zhao , Mona Jarrahi

Charge carrier recombination in the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has a deep influence on the electrical performance, such as open circuit voltage, short circuit current, fill factor and ultimately power conversion efficiency. The impacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Lin Xing Shi , Zi Shuai Wang , Zengguang Huang , Wei E. I. Sha , Haoran Wang , Zhen Zhou

Heterostructures based on atomically thin semiconductors are considered a promising emerging technology for the realization of ultrathin and ultralight photovoltaic solar cells on flexible substrates. Much progress has been made in recent…

We introduce a multiple-carrier-lifetime model (MCLM) for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with non-uniform carrier distribution, such as in multiple-quantum-well (MQW) structures. By employing the MCLM, we successfully explain the modulation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Xuefeng Li , Elizabeth DeJong , Rob Armitage , Daniel Feezell

There remains wide interest in solar cells being made using inexpensive materials and simple device manufacturing techniques to harvest ever-increasing amounts of energy. New semiconductor materials and new quantum nanostructures are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Husien Salama

Multiple exciton generation solar cells (MEGSCs) undergo low efficiency due to material imperfections such as nonradiative recombination This paper introduces alternative approaches for realizing photovoltaic (PV) devices similar to MEGSCs.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Jongwon Lee

We consider dark sector scenarios where dark matter is accompanied by a dark photon and multiple-flavor dark fermions charged under the dark gauge group. We study quantum interference effects in dark sector jets, where multiple dark photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-07 So Chigusa , Masahito Yamazaki

Biomolecular light-harvesting antennas operate as nanoscale devices in a regime where the coherent interactions of individual light, matter and vibrational quanta are non-perturbatively strong. The complex behaviour arising from this could,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 A. W. Chin , B. Le Dé , E. Mangaud , O. Atabek , M. Desouter-Lecomte

Quantum battery, as a novel energy storage device, offers the potential for unprecedented efficiency and performance beyond the capabilities of classical systems, with broad implications for future quantum technologies. Here, we…

Near-term quantum computing technologies grapple with huge complexity overheads, hindering their ability to induce algorithms, necessitating engineering and scientific innovations. One class of problems of interest is Quantum Simulation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Samuel Stein , Fei Hua , Chenxu Liu , Charles Guinn , James Ang , Eddy Zhang , Srivatsan Chakram , Yufei Ding , Ang Li

In developing photovoltaic devices with high efficiencies, quantitative determination of the carrier loss is crucial. In conventional solar-cell characterization techniques, however, photocurrent reduction originating from parasitic light…

Perovskite semiconductors have demonstrated outstanding external luminescence quantum yields, enabling high power conversion efficiencies (PCE). However, the precise conditions to advance to an efficiency regime above monocrystalline…

Recombination losses contribute to reduce $J_{SC}$, $V_{OC}$ and the fill factor of organic solar cells. Recent advances in non-fullerene organic photovoltaics have shown, nonetheless, that efficient charge generation can occur under small…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Artur M. Andermann , Luis G. C. Rego

The enhancement of power conversion efficiency beyond the theoretical limit of single-junction solar cells is a key objective in the advancement of hot carrier solar cells. Recent findings indicate that quantum wells (QWs) can effectively…

Recombination of photogenerated charge carriers in polymer bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells reduces the short circuit current (Jsc) and the fill factor (FF). Identifying the mechanism of recombination is, therefore, fundamentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Sarah R. Cowan , Anshuman Roy , Alan J. Heeger

Artificially reproducing the biological light reactions responsible for the remarkably efficient photon-to-charge conversion in photosynthetic complexes represents a new direction for the future development of photovoltaic devices. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 C. Creatore , M. A. Parker , S. Emmott , A. W. Chin

We investigate the quantum thermodynamics of two quantum systems, a two-level system and a four-level quantum photocell, each driven by photon pulses as a quantum heat engine. We set these systems to be in thermal contact only with a cold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Sangchul Oh , Jungjun Park , Hyunchul Nha

To absorb the photons below the band-gap energy effectively, we proposed a quantum dot (QD) photocell modeled by multi-level system for the quantum yields and photo-to-charge efficiency limits. The theoretical results show the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Shun-Cai Zhao , Jing-Yi Chen

We present and open source a quantum circuit simulator tailored to chemistry applications. More specifically, our simulator can compute the Born-rule probabilities of samples obtained from circuits containing passive fermionic linear…

Reservoir computing is a machine learning framework that uses artificial or physical dissipative dynamics to predict time-series data using nonlinearity and memory properties of dynamical systems. Quantum systems are considered as promising…