Reporting solar cell efficiencies in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-373

  Smestad, Greg P ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^b   Lampert, Carl M ^a   Granqvist, Claes G ^c   Chopra, K L ^a   Mathew, Xavier ^d   Takakura, Hideyuki ^e  

^a Technical University of Denmark ^*  (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

^e RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AM1.5; Photocurrents; Power conversion efficiency; Reporting procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749119807     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.01.003     Document Type: Editorial

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