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Growth and characterization of GaSb Quantum Rings for Intermediate Band Solar Cells Work package 3: Materials for energy D. Montesdeocaa, P. J. Carringtona, M. C. Wagenerb, J. R. Bothab, A. R. J.Marshalla, and A. Kriera Lancaster University, UK. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, SA. Recently moved to UCL, but the bulk of the work was done whilst I was at Lancaster in collaboration with NMU and TEM done in Warwick. And I’m going to talk about … specifically GaSb/GaAs QDs for SCs. Cadiz PROMIS Workshop:18-20 May 2016

Introduction Thermalized Transmission loss Radiation Absorbed photon energy > band gap Radiation Transmitted photon energy < band gap

3rd Generation Solar Cells Multi-junction PV cells Fraunhofer ISE record = 46% (508x) 4-junction cell Third-generation cells utilise sub-band gap light. Tandem/stacked cells have produced record efficiencies. Expensive and limited to concentrator systems.

Intermediate Band Solar Cell The Solar Energy Institute in Madrid Luque et al., Nature Photonics 6 (2012) 146 Luque and Marti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 5014 Two operating principles of IBSC: 1) Voc Conservation 2) Two-Photon Subbandgap Photocurrent 3 Fermi levels( EF,C EF,V EF,IB)Partially filling of IB - No overlapping of absorption coefficient - Partially filled IB

Type II GaSb/GaAs QD/QR Solar Cell SC Diameter 3.5mm MBE Veeco GEN xplor GaAs control cell and 5 and 10 stacks of GaSb/GaAs QD/QR have been grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Type II GaSb/GaAs Quantum Rings dot density  1 x 1010 cm-2 QD/QR grown by self assembled in MBE (strain between GaAs and GaSb ≈7.8%) QD/QR density 1010cm-2 QR formation: strain relief (No strain balanced layers required) Type-II heterostructure  spatially indirect absorption/recombination

Photo-response and IV under 1-sun VOC drop CB AM 1.5 IB VB GaSb quantum rings extends the optical response up to 1400 nm Short Circuit Current (Jsc) 27.9 mA/cm2 5.9% increase Reduction on Open Circuit Voltage (Voc) ≈400meV

Reason for VOC loss CB IB VB optical transitions IB thermal Decrease in VOC due to thermal emission of holes quantum rings  competing optical and thermal hole-emission VOC recovered by cooling or by increasing optical intensity Need to know/control the optical and thermal emission kinetics Absorption coefficient and hole emission rate H. fujita, J. James, Sem. Sci. Tech., 29 (2014) 035014

Reason for VOC loss CB IB VB optical transitions IB thermal Competing process optical transitions IB IB thermal thermal VB Decrease in VOC due to thermal emission of holes quantum rings  competing optical and thermal hole-emission VOC recovered by cooling or by increasing optical intensity Need to know/control the optical and thermal emission kinetics Absorption coefficient and hole emission rate H. fujita, J. James, Sem. Sci. Tech., 29 (2014) 035014

Two-photon response measurement primary CB A  IB A A thermal VB Conventional setup of photoresponse spectroscopy. Sub-bandgap photoresponse limited by hole emission from quantum rings.

Two-photon response measurement primary secondary CB A B B  IB A A trapping VB Charging/photofilling the QR using a second excitation source counteracts hole emission Two-step excitation becomes discernable

Two-photon response CB QR VB primary thermal weak 16 Kelvin CB PRIMARY QR A thermal weak VB GaSb quantum rings significantly extends photo-response

Two-photon response CB QR VB primary thermal weak 16 Kelvin CB PRIMARY + PHOTOFILLING B A QR A A + B thermal weak VB Second, photofilling source enhances QR response VERIFIES: 2-photon response via QR states Wagener et al., Journal of Appl. Phys. 116 (2014) 044304

Summary Demonstrated quantum dot solar cell through incorporation of GaSb quantum rings in GaAs solar cell. ( 5 and 10 stacks od QD has been fabricated) Extended cell operation well beyond GaAs response. Increase in short circuit current about 5.9%. Successfully demonstrated two-photon absorption using the type-II GaSb/GaAs system at low temperature.

Acknowledgements Thank you for your attention Dr. R. Beanland and Dr. Ana Sanchez (TEM) - University of Warwick Dr Rob Airey and Dr. Ken Kennedy, (Processing) III-V National Centre, Sheffield EU Marie-Curie photonics training network (PROMIS)