Two colour excitation up-conversion efficiency enhancement for a silicon photovoltaic device using Er3+-doped phosphors

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 45-48

  Shalav, Avi ^a   Richards, Bryce ^b   Krämer, Karl ^c   Conibeer, Gavin ^a   Green, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EXCITED STATES; PHOSPHORS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

LIGHT ENERGIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SPECTRAL ROBUSTNESS; TWO COLOR EXCITATION;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 41749086682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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