Photosynthesis versus photovoltaics

Alexander P. Kirk; David K. Ferry

doi:10.1007/s10825-017-1063-y

Photosynthesis versus photovoltaics

Alexander P. Kirk, David K. Ferry

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Abstract

The physics of photon absorption, exciton and free carrier generation, relaxation, transport, recombination, and collection is analyzed and compared, step-by-step, between photosynthetic complexes and photovoltaic cells. By unifying the physics of the biological photosynthesis process and the device physics of photovoltaic cells, it is shown that well-designed photovoltaic cells share many similarities with highly evolved photosynthetic complexes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Computational Electronics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-017-1063-y
State	Accepted/In press - Aug 29 2017

Keywords

Bio-inspired
Photosynthesis
Photovoltaics
Quantum coherence
Transport

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Modeling and Simulation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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