Increasing Photovoltaic Power by Noise Induced
Coherence Between Intermediate Band States

• Authors: Konstantin E. Dorfman , Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Marlan O. Scully
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It has been shown that efficiency of a photovoltaic cell can be
enhanced in the presence of intermediate levels in a semiconductor
band gap. However the practical realization of this
concept is difficult due to low absorption by the intermediate
levels. We show that it is possible to significantly increase
photon absorption and generate more power utilizing noise
induced quantum coherence between intermediate electronic
states which is created due to interference among the absorption
pathways. We discuss possible experimental demonstration
of this effect using confined electronic-hole states in self
assembled quantum dots.

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Coherent Phenomena
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 42-49

Dates

received

18 - 04 - 2013

online

19 - 07 - 2013

accepted

3 - 5 - 2013

Contributors

author

Konstantin E. Dorfman

• Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843
• Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544
• University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2025

author

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

• Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843
• Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544

author

Marlan O. Scully

• Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843
• Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544
• Baylor University, Waco, TX 76706

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/coph-2013-0002