Solar heating of GaAs nanowire solar cells

Wu, Shao-Hua; Povinelli, Michelle L.

doi:10.1364/oe.23.0a1363

Title: Solar heating of GaAs nanowire solar cells

Abstract

We use a coupled thermal-optical approach to model the operating temperature rise in GaAs nanowire solar cells. Our findings show that despite more highly concentrated light absorption and lower thermal conductivity, the overall temperature rise in a nanowire structure is no higher than in a planar structure. Moreover, coating the nanowires with a transparent polymer can increase the radiative cooling power by 2.2 times, lowering the operating temperature by nearly 7 K.

Authors:

Wu, Shao-Hua ^[1]; Povinelli, Michelle L. ^[1]

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Center for Energy Nanoscience

Publication Date:: 2015-09-24

Research Org.:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Energy Nanoscience (CEN); Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1369903

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1240847

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001013

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Optics Express

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 24; Related Information: CEN partners with University of Southern California (lead); University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Michigan; University of Virginia; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; thermal emission; subwavelength structures; nanostructures; solar energy

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  title        = {Solar heating of GaAs nanowire solar cells},

  author       = {Wu, Shao-Hua and Povinelli, Michelle L.},

  abstractNote = {We use a coupled thermal-optical approach to model the operating temperature rise in GaAs nanowire solar cells. Our findings show that despite more highly concentrated light absorption and lower thermal conductivity, the overall temperature rise in a nanowire structure is no higher than in a planar structure. Moreover, coating the nanowires with a transparent polymer can increase the radiative cooling power by 2.2 times, lowering the operating temperature by nearly 7 K.},

  doi          = {10.1364/oe.23.0a1363},

  journal      = {Optics Express},

  number       = 24,

  volume       = 23,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2015},

  month        = {9}

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Fig. 1: Schematic illustrations of the structures of interest. (a) Square array of GaAs nanowires, embedded in optional BCB. The inset is the magnified top view of one unit cell; a is the lattice constant for the nanowire array, and d is the nanowire diameter. Note that the layer thicknessesmore »

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