Fabrication and performance of a monolithic dye-sensitized TiO2 /Cu (In,Ga) Se2 thin film tandem solar cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Wenger, Sophie ^a   Seyrling, Sieghard ^b   Tiwari, Ayodhya N ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDGAP ABSORBERS; CU(IN , GA)SE; CU(IN , GA)SE2; DYE-SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; JUNCTION DEVICES; MATERIAL COSTS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATIONS; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; OPTICAL GAPS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSIONS; REDOX MEDIATORS; SERIES CONNECTIONS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SUB-CELLS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM TANDEMS; VOLTAGE LOSS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 65449177670     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3125432     Document Type: Article

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