Research Field Photovoltaics

Silicon Heterojunction Microcells

Maggie M. Potter, Megan E. Phelan, Pradeep Balaji, Phillip Jahelka, Haley C. Bauser, Rebecca D. Glaudell, Cora M. Went, Michael J. Enright, David R. Needell, André Augusto, Harry A. Atwater, and Ralph G. Nuzzo
(2021) - Photovoltaics

Spatiotemporal Imaging of Thickness-Induced Band-Bending Junctions

Joeson Wong, Artur Davoyan, Bolin Liao, Andrey Krayev, Kiyoung Jo, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Chris M. Jozwiak, Deep Jariwala, Ahmed H. Zewail, and Harry A. Atwater
Nano Letters (2021) - 2D Materials Photovoltaics

Solar power windows: Connecting scientific advances to market signals

David R. Needell, Megan E. Phelan, Jason T. Hartlove, Harry A. Atwater
Energy 219 (2021) 119567 (2021) - Photovoltaics

Outdoor performance of a tandem InGaP/Si photovoltaic luminescent solar concentrator

Megan Phelan, David R. Needell, Haley Bauser, Hanxiao Su, Michael Deceglie, San Theingi, Brent Koscher, Zach Nett, Colton R. Bukowsky, Ognjen Ilic, Paul Stradins, John Geisz, Ralph Nuzzo, A. Paul Alivisatos, Harry A. Atwater
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 223 (2021) 110945 (2021) - Photovoltaics

Impact of Semiconductor Band Tails and Band Filling on Photovoltaic Efficiency Limits

Joeson Wong, Stefan T. Omelchenko, and Harry A. Atwater
ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 52−57 (2020) (2020) - Photovoltaics

Photovoltaic operation in the lower atmosphere and at the surface of Venus

Jonathan Grandidier, Alexander P. Kirk, Phillip Jahelka, Margaret A. Stevens, Pawan K. Gogna, David Crisp, Mark L. Osowski, Thomas E. Vandervelde, Harry A. Atwater, and James A. Cutts
Progress in Photovoltics (2020) - Photovoltaics

Photonic Crystal Waveguides for >90% Light Trapping Efficiency in Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Haley C. Bauser, Colton R. Bukowsky, Megan Phelan, William Weigand, David R. Needell, Zachary C. Holman, and Harry A. Atwater
ACS Photonics (2020) - Photovoltaics

Autonomous Light Management in Flexible Photoelectrochromic Films Integrating High Performance Silicon Solar Microcells

Maggie M. Potter, Mikayla A. Yoder, Aaron Petronico, Sean E. Lehman, Bruno G. Nicolau, Michael J. Enright, Megan Phelan, Junwen He, Harry A. Atwater, and Ralph G. Nuzzo
ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 1540−1551 (2020) - Photovoltaics

High Broadband Light Transmission for Solar Fuels Production Using Dielectric Optical Waveguides in TiO2 Nanocone Arrays

Sisir Yalamanchili, Erik Verlage, Wen-Hui Cheng, Katherine T. Fountaine, Philip R. Jahelka, Paul A. Kempler, Rebecca Saive, Nathan S. Lewis, and Harry A. Atwater
Nano Letters (2020) - Nanophotonics Photovoltaics

An ultralight concentrator photovoltaic system for space solar power harvesting

Emily C. Warmanna, Pilar Espinet-Gonzaleza, Nina Vaidya, Samuel Loke, Ali Naqavi, Tatiana Vinogradova, Michael Kelzenberg, Christophe Leclerc, Eleftherios Gdoutos, Sergio Pellegrino, and Harry A. Atwater
Acta Astronautica (2020) - Photovoltaics Space Solar Power

Ultraefficient thermophotovoltaic power conversion by band-edge spectral filtering

Zunaid Omaira, Gregg Scranton, Luis M. Pazos-Outón, T. Patrick Xiao, Myles A. Steiner, Vidya Ganapati, Per F. Peterson, John Holzrichter, Harry Atwater, and Eli Yablonovitch
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2020) - Photovoltaics

High Broadband Light Transmission for Solar Fuels Production Using Dielectric Optical Waveguides in TiO2 Nanocone Arrays

Sisir Yalamanchili, Erik Verlage, Wen-Hui Cheng, Katherine T. Fountaine, Philip R. Jahelka, Paul A. Kempler, Rebecca Saive, Nathan S. Lewis, and Harry A. Atwater
NANO Letters, Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 502−508 (2020) - Nanophotonic Materials and Devices Nanophotonics Photovoltaics

CO2 Reduction to CO with 19% Efficiency in a Solar-Driven Gas Diffusion Electrode Flow Cell under Outdoor Solar Illumination

Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias H. Richter, Ian Sullivan, David M. Larson, Chengxiang Xiang, Bruce S. Brunschwig,* and Harry A. Atwater*
ACS Energy Letters (2020) - Photovoltaics Solar Fuels

Photovoltaic operation in the lower atmosphere and at the surface of Venus

Jonathan Grandidier, Alexander P. Kirk, Phillip Jahelka, Margaret A. Stevens, Pawan K. Gogna, David Crisp, Mark L. Osowski, Thomas E. Vandervelde, Harry A. Atwater, and James A. Cutts
Prog Photovolt Res Appl. 2019;1–9. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pip (2020) - Photovoltaics Solar Fuels

Predicting Geographic Energy Production for Tandem PV Designs Using a Compact Set of Spectra Correlated by Irradiance

Emily C. Warmann and Harry A. Atwater
IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS, VOL. 9, NO. 6, NOVEMBER 2019 (2020) - Photovoltaics

Simulation and partial prototyping of an eight‐junction holographic spectrum‐splitting photovoltaic module

Sunita Darbe, Matthew D. Escarra, Emily C. Warmann, Harry A. Atwater
Energy Science & Engineering (2019) - Photovoltaics

Spectrally Matched Quantum Dot Photoluminescence in GaAs-Si Tandem Luminescent Solar Concentrators

David R. Needell; Colton R. Bukowsky; Sunita Darbe; Haley Bauser; Ognjen Ilic; Harry A. Atwater
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2019) - Photovoltaics

The Polyhedral Specular Reflector: A Spectrum-Splitting Multijunction Design to Achieve Ultrahigh (>50%) Solar Module Efficiencies

Carissa N. Eisler, Cristofer A. Flowers, Emily C. Warmann, John V. Lloyd, Pilar Espinet-Gonzalez, Sunita Darbe , Michelle S. Dee, Matthew D. Escarra, Emily D. Kosten, Weijun Zhou, and Harry A. Atwater
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2018) - Photovoltaics

Study of the Interface in a GaP/Si Heterojunction Solar Cell

Rebecca Saive, Hal Emmer, Christopher T. Chen, Chaomin Zhang, Christiana Honsberg, and Harry Atwater
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2018) - Photovoltaics

Design Criteria for Micro-Optical Tandem Luminescent Solar Concentrators

David R. Needell , Ognjen Ilic, Colton R. Bukowsky , Zach Nett, Lu Xu, Junwen He, Haley Bauser, Benjamin G. Lee , John F. Geisz , Ralph G. Nuzzo, A. Paul Alivisatos, and Harry A. Atwater
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2018) - Photovoltaics

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