000009378 001__ 9378 000009378 005__ 20240904093817.0 000009378 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/3626 000009378 0247_ $$2URI$$a3626 000009378 020__ $$a978-3-89336-573-9 000009378 037__ $$aPreJuSER-9378 000009378 041__ $$aGerman 000009378 082__ $$a333.7 000009378 082__ $$a620 000009378 1001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)159457$$aKirchartz, Thomas$$b0$$eCorresponding author$$gmale$$uFZJ 000009378 245__ $$aGeneralized detailed balance theory of solar cells 000009378 260__ $$aJülich$$bForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek,Verlag$$c2009 000009378 300__ $$aIV, 198 S. 000009378 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)11$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aDissertation / PhD Thesis 000009378 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)3$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aBook 000009378 3367_ $$02$$2EndNote$$aThesis 000009378 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$adoctoralThesis 000009378 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aPHDTHESIS 000009378 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Dissertation 000009378 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aDISSERTATION 000009378 4900_ $$0PERI:(DE-600)2445288-9$$aSchriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich : Energie & Umwelt / Energy & Environment$$v38$$x1866-1793 000009378 502__ $$aAachen, RWTH, Diss., 2009$$bDr. (Univ.)$$cRWTH Aachen$$d2009 000009378 500__ $$aRecord converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 000009378 520__ $$aThe principle of detailed balance is the requirement that every microscopic process in a system must be in equilibrium with its inverse process, when the system itself is in thermodynamic equilibrium. This detailed balance principle has been of special importance for photovoltaics, since it allows the calculation of the limiting efficiency of a given solar cell by defining the only fundamental loss process as the radiative recombination of electron/hole pairs followed by the emission of a photon. In equilibrium, i.e. in the dark and without applied voltage, the absorbed and emitted photon flux must be equal due to detailed balance. This equality determines the radiative recombination from absorption and vice versa. While the classical theory of photovoltaic efficiency limits by Shockley and Queisser considers only one detailed balance pair, namely photogeneration and radiative recombination, the present work extends the detailed balance principle to any given process in the solar cell. Applying the detailed balance principle to the whole device leads to two major results, namely (i) a model that is compatible with the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit for efficient particle transport, while still being able to describe non-ideal and non-linear solar cells, and (ii) an analytical relation between electroluminescent emission and photovoltaic action of a diode that is applied to a variety of different solar cells. This thesis presents several variations of a detailed balance model that are applicable to different types of solar cells. Any typical inorganic solar cell is a mainly bipolar device, meaning that the current is carried by electrons and holes. The detailed balance model for pn-type and pin-type bipolar solar cells is therefore the most basic incorporation of a detailed balance model. The only addition compared to the classical diode theory or compared to standard one-dimensional device simulators is the incorporation of photon recycling, making the model compatible with the Shockley-Queisser limit and the classical diode theory. For organic solar [...] 000009378 536__ $$0G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK401$$2G:(DE-HGF)$$aErneuerbare Energien$$cP11$$x0 000009378 655_7 $$aHochschulschrift$$xDissertation (Univ.) 000009378 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/9378/files/Energie%26Umwelt_38.pdf$$yOpenAccess 000009378 909CO $$ooai:juser.fz-juelich.de:9378$$pdnbdelivery$$pVDB$$pdriver$$popen_access$$popenaire 000009378 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0510$$2StatID$$aOpenAccess 000009378 9141_ $$aNachtrag$$y2009 000009378 9131_ $$0G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK401$$bEnergie$$kP11$$lErneuerbare Energien$$vErneuerbare Energien$$x0 000009378 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)VDB813$$d30.09.2010$$gIEF$$kIEF-5$$lPhotovoltaik$$x0 000009378 970__ $$aVDB:(DE-Juel1)119071 000009378 9801_ $$aFullTexts 000009378 980__ $$aVDB 000009378 980__ $$aJUWEL 000009378 980__ $$aConvertedRecord 000009378 980__ $$aphd 000009378 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013 000009378 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED 000009378 980__ $$aFullTexts 000009378 981__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IMD-3-20101013 000009378 981__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013