dc.creator | Alicki, Robert | |
dc.creator | Gelbwaser Klimovsky, David | |
dc.creator | Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-12T21:21:31Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-25T14:45:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-12T21:21:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-25T14:45:14Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-01-12T21:21:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01-06 | |
dc.identifier | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491617300039 | |
dc.identifier | 0003-4916 | |
dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10669/29417 | |
dc.identifier | 10.1016/j.aop.2017.01.003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/2374163 | |
dc.description.abstract | A solar cell is a heat engine, but textbook treatments are not wholly satisfactory from a thermodynamic standpoint, since they present solar cells as directly converting the energy of light into electricity, and the current in the circuit as maintained by an electrostatic potential. We propose a thermodynamic cycle in which the gas of electrons in the p phase serves as the working substance. The interface between the p and n phases acts as a self-oscillating piston that modulates the absorption of heat from the photons so that it may perform a net positive work during a complete cycle of its motion, in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics. We draw a simple hydrodynamical analogy between this model and the "putt-putt" engine of toy boats, in which the interface between the water's liquid and gas phases serves as the piston. We point out some testable consequences of this model. | |
dc.language | en_US | |
dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cr/ | |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Costa Rica | |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Costa Rica | |
dc.source | Annals of Physics, In Press, Accepted Manuscript | |
dc.subject | solar cell | |
dc.subject | self-oscillation | |
dc.subject | limit efficiency | |
dc.subject | plasma oscillation | |
dc.subject | quantum thermodynamics | |
dc.title | A thermodynamic cycle for the solar cell | |
dc.type | Artículos de revistas | |
dc.type | Artículo científico | |