Moving beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit: current bottlenecks and a new direction in solar energy conversion
Mehri Ghasemi, Joel van Embden, Baohua Jia, Xiaoming Wen
Abstract
This review examines strategies to surpass the Shockley–Queisser limit by addressing thermalization and sub-bandgap losses. It introduces the lattice energy reservoir as a unified mechanism enabling energy recycling in single-junction solar cells.
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