caa a22 4500 445820438 CHVBK 20180317145242.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10825-011-0375-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10825-011-0375-6 Aeberhard U. IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut Theory and simulation of quantum photovoltaic devices based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism [Elektronische Daten] [U. Aeberhard] This article reviews the application of the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to the simulation of novel photovoltaic devices utilizing quantum confinement effects in low dimensional absorber structures. It covers well-known aspects of the fundamental NEGF theory for a system of interacting electrons, photons and phonons with relevance for the simulation of optoelectronic devices and introduces at the same time new approaches to the theoretical description of the elementary processes of photovoltaic device operation, such as photogeneration via coherent excitonic absorption, phonon-mediated indirect optical transitions or non-radiative recombination via defect states. While the description of the theoretical framework is kept as general as possible, two specific prototypical quantum photovoltaic devices, a single quantum well photodiode and a silicon-oxide based superlattice absorber, are used to illustrated the kind of unique insight that numerical simulations based on the theory are able to provide. Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2011 Photovoltaics nationallicence NEGF nationallicence Quantum well nationallicence Quantum dot nationallicence Journal of Computational Electronics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 10/4(2011-12-01), 394-413 1569-8025 10:4<394 2011 10 10825 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-011-0375-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-011-0375-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Aeberhard U. IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Computational Electronics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 10/4(2011-12-01), 394-413 1569-8025 10:4<394 2011 10 10825 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer