Photoluminescence of InAs/Ga(N)As quantum dot intermediate band solar cells
Master thesis
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In this thesis InAs/Ga(N)As quantum dot intermediate band solar cells (QDIBSCs)are studied using photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The samplesin this thesis have been complete QD-IBSCs with doping in the substrate,the emitters and the barrier material.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first study which attempts to analysesolar cell structures at this level of complexity. The analysis relies heavilyon the elementary properties previously described by several authors. Anextensive literature survey is included for the reader's benefit.
Due to the high amount of peaks in the initial PL measurements of sample2-GaAs, the sample was gradually etched by BCl3 down to the substrate.The peaks turned out to be caused by a software misconfiguration, whichrendered the data unusable for the original purpose.
As a solution, the samples 1-GaNAs, 2-GaAs and 3-GaAs-etched were sentto Oslo for similar PL measurements. The samples were measured in thetemperature range 10 K to 300 K, for emission wavelengths between 750 nmand 1500 nm. The GaAs related peaks are composed by several smaller peaksattributed to the Fermi level (FL), band to acceptor (b-A), donor to acceptor(D-A) and defect transitions. The QD peaks were located at about 1000 nm(1.24 eV) and 1100 nm (1.13 eV) for sample 2-GaAs and sample 1-GaNAs,respectively, due to different QD sizes. From PL intensity and computationof activation energies, sample 1-GaNAs is likely to contain more defects thansample 2-GaAs.