Limiting efficiency of an intermediate band solar cell under a terrestrial spectrum

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Bremner, Stephen P ^a   Levy, Michael Y ^a   Honsberg, Christiana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BLACKBODY SPECTRUM; INTERMEDIATE BAND (IB); TERRESTRIAL SPECTRUM;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 43049122418     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2907493     Document Type: Article

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