High efficiency thin-film crystalline Si/Ge tandem solar cell

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3746-3753

  Sun, G ^a   Chang, F ^a   Soref, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; SOLAR CELLS;

ANTIREFLECTION FILMS; FRONT SURFACES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IN-BETWEEN; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; SI LAYER; SI/GE; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77149144130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003746     Document Type: Article

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