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Towards the intermediate band

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By tailoring the electronic band structure of highly mismatched alloys, researchers have shown clear evidence of the existence of three electronically isolated energy bands, bringing the intermediate-band solar cell one step closer to realization.

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Figure 1: Structure and operation of the IB cell developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, USA.

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  1. Antonio Luque and Antonio Martí are at the Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain.,

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Luque, A., Martí, A. Towards the intermediate band. Nature Photon 5, 137–138 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.22

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