Up-and down-conversion as new means to improve solar cell efficiencies

Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

Volumn A, Issue , 2003, Pages 67-70

  Trupke, Thorsten ^a   Würfel, Peter ^b   Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ENERGY PHOTONS; IMPURITY PHOTOVOLTAICS (IPV); STOKES SHIFT;

GROUND STATE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LUMINESCENCE; MIRRORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 6344233663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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