Optical waveguide enhanced photovoltaics

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21801-21806

  Rühle, Sven ^a   Greenwald, Shlomit ^a   Koren, Elad ^a   Zaban, Arie ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

BACK CONTACT; ELECTRIC POWER; GLASS SUBSTRATES; MULTI-JUNCTIONS; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SPECTRAL SPLITTING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 58149114924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021801     Document Type: Article

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