A review of ultrahigh efficiency III-V semiconductor compound solar cells: Multijunction tandem, lower dimensional, photonic up/down conversion and plasmonic nanometallic structures

Energies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 504-530

  Tanabe, Katsuaki ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clean energy; Multijunction; Photovoltaics; Quantum dots; Quantum wells; Renewable energy; Semiconductors; Solar cells; Solar energy; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349540138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en20300504     Document Type: Review

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