Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference (한국진공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2010.08a
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- Pages.305-305
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- 2010
Fabrication of Hot Electron Based Photovoltaic Systems using Metal-semiconductor Schottky Diode
- Lee, Young-Keun (EEWS Graduate School, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)) ;
- Jung, Chan-Ho (EEWS Graduate School, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)) ;
- Park, Jong-Hyurk (ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)) ;
- Park, Jeong-Young (EEWS Graduate School, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology))
- Published : 2010.08.18
Abstract
It is known that a pulse of electrons of high kinetic energy (1-3 eV) in metals can be generated with the deposition of external energy to the surface such as in the absorption of light or in exothermic chemical processes. These energetic electrons are not in thermal equilibrium with the metal atoms and are called "hot electrons" The concept of photon energy conversion to hot electron flow was suggested by Eric McFarland and Tang who directly measured the photocurrent on gold thin film of metal-semiconductor (
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