Minimum effect of non-infinitesmal intermediate band width on the detailed balance efficiency of an intermediate band solar cell

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 71-74

  Levy, Michael Y ^a   Honsberg, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PHOTONS;

BALANCE EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS; EMISSION SPECTRUM; NON-INFINITESMAL INTERMEDIATES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749093425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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