Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
An evaluation of BiFeO3 as a photovoltaic material
Year:2017

Research Areas
  • Chemistry,
  • Solar energy,
  • Materials for electric engineering and electronics

Information
Abstract
An analysis of BiFeO3 focusing on its absorption properties, is carried out using experimental results from the literature and first-principles. In order to identify the different contributions to the absorption coefficient, the results have been split into inter- and intra-atomic contributions. Its potential as a photovoltaic material has been evaluated using both theoretical and experimental optical results. Because of the ferroelectric properties, we have considered two mechanisms for generating photocurrent: the traditional radiative and the ferroelectric or photovoltaic effects. The efficiencies, when ferroelectric photogeneration coexists with the traditional photovoltaic mechanism, are only slightly larger than when only the latter is considered. However, the increase in efficiency is significant with just multi-gap solar cells.
International
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JCR
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Title
Solar Energy Materials And Solar Cells
ISBN
0927-0248
Impact factor JCR
4,784
Impact info
Volume
171
10.1016/j.solmat.2017.06.049
Journal number
From page
161
To page
165
Month
SIN MES
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Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Energía Solar
  • Departamento: Electrónica Física, Ingeniería Eléctrica y Física Aplicada