In most cases, semiconductor materials with the bandgap ranges from 0.53 eV to 2.3 eV or nearest have been used for solar cell materials or solar energy. Besides, some organic compounds also been using. However, mainly optical and electrical properties such as as effective mass of electron and hole, the number of equivalent minima in the conduction band and valance band, electron-hole mobility, minority carrier lifetime, diffusion constant, intrinsic carrier concentration, donar and acceptor concentration, surface recombination velocity etc have been used for determine the efficiency for solar cell or solar energy. For more details, you may read my paper using the link: 1. Article High Efficiency Four Junction III-V Bismide Concentrator Sol...
and 2.Article Progress in Major Thin-film Solar Cells: Growth Technologies...
You may get some important parameters from the appendix sections in the book "Physics of semiconductor device by S M Sze",
Semiconductors devices with a suitable bandgaps and is also depends on which type of solar cell you want work with
The question is very general, so I offer you, study the scientific contributions entitled:
• Production of cuprous oxide, a solar cell material, by thermal oxidation and a study of its physical and electrical properties
• The structural and material properties of CuInSe2 and Cu (In, Ga) Se2 prepared by selenization of stacks of metal and compound precursors by Se vapor for solar cell applications
• The effects of inclusion of iodine in CdTe thin films on material properties and solar cell performance
• Direct comparison of the electrical properties of multicrystalline silicon materials for solar cells: Conventional p-type, n-type and high-performance p-type
• Modeling of material properties influence on back junction thin polycrystalline silicon solar cells
• Open atmospheric processed perovskite solar cells using dopant-free, highly hydrophobic hole-transporting materials: Influence of thiophene and selenophene π-spacers on charge transport and recombination propertie
I hope you find this information useful in your research.
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