The director of the CDL 4 ProMod has recently published a paper titled The Role of Thermalization in the Cooling Dynamics of Hot Carrier Solar Cells in the journal Solar RRL.
In this manuscript, we study the theoretical feasibility of the hot carrier solar cell (HCSC) concept which has been proposed as a means to overcome the Shockley Queisser limit of a single p-n junction solar cell. A promising family of materials for this purpose are metal halide perovskites (MPHs). Using the Ensemble Monte Carlo code ViennaEMC developed in Lado‘s group, and with a close collaboration with colleagues from the University of Groningen, we describe how perovksites should be tuned in order to realize a HCSC, contributing to the long-standing debate on the physics behind the cooling times observed in MHPs and their suitability for HCSC design.
