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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4941240
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- Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Innovation et des Exportations du Quebec
- Azastra Inc.
- National Research Council of Canada
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Optical to electrical power converting semiconductor devices were achieved with breakthrough performance by designing a Vertical Epitaxial Heterostructure Architecture. The devices are featuring modeled and measured conversion efficiencies greater than 65%. The ultrahigh conversion efficiencies were obtained by monolithically integrating several thin GaAs photovoltaic junctions tailored with submicron absorption thicknesses and grown in a single crystal by epitaxy. The heterostructures that were engineered with a number N of such ultrathin junctions yielded an optimal external quantum efficiencies approaching 100%/N. The heterostructures are capable of output voltages that are multiple times larger than the corresponding photovoltage of the input light. The individual nanoscale junctions are each generating up to similar to 1.2V of output voltage when illuminated in the infrared. We compare the optoelectronic properties of phototransducers prepared with designs having 5 to 12 junctions and that are exhibiting voltage outputs between >5V and >14 V. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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