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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Theoretical Perspective of the Photochemical Potential in the Spectral Performance of Photovoltaic Cells.

Agustin Pérez-Madrid, Ivan Santamaría-Holek

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Agustin Pérez-MadridDepartament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6932-9371
Ivan Santamaría-HolekUMDI-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Juriquilla, Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5306-197X

Funding

Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México IN117419MICINN of Spain PGC2018-098373-B-100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a novel theoretical approach to the problem of light energy conversion in thermostated semiconductor junctions. Using the classical model of a two-level atom, we deduced formulas for the spectral response and the quantum efficiency in terms of the input photons' non-zero chemical potential. We also calculated the spectral entropy production and the global efficiency parameter in the thermodynamic limit. The heat transferred to the thermostat results in a dissipative loss that appreciably controls the spectral quantities' behavior and, therefore, the cell's performance. The application of the obtained formulas to data extracted from photovoltaic cells enabled us to accurately interpolate experimental data for the spectral response and the quantum efficiency of cells based on Si-, GaAs, and CdTe, among others.

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photochemical potentialPVCquantum efficiencyspectral entropy productionspectral responsetwo-level atom model

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PMID34066792
PMCPMC8151762

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