@inproceedings{5aaaab5a98d94d52bf3fc447a3ebbff8,
title = "Photovoltaics from first principles",
abstract = "It has been realized in recent years that the efficiency limits for single-junction solar cells can easily be overcome by a number of new design elements, involving plasmonic photonic crystals, plasmonic nanoparticles and up/down-conversion layers. We present a numerical method to analyze the formation of electron-hole pairs in these new types of solar cells, based on density functional theory and the Bethe-Salpeter equation. After discussing the main results of a typical numerical study, we suggest possible extensions and their implementation in typical device modeling programs.",
keywords = "Bethe-Salpeter equation, ab initio methods, density functional theory, excitons",
author = "Alexander Quandt and Robert Warmbier",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016 ; Conference date: 10-07-2016 Through 14-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550269",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
booktitle = "2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016",
address = "United States",
}
