Simulation of the influence of the absorption window for stacked and monolithic organic tandem solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1125-1131

  Minnaert, Ben ^a   Burgelman, Marc ^b   De Vos, Alexis ^b   Veelaert, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Absorption window; Modelling; Optimal energy levels; Organic solar cells; Power conversion efficiency; Tandem solar cells

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; EFFICIENCY GAIN; ENERGY LEVEL; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTIMAL ENERGY LEVELS; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SUB-CELLS; TANDEM CELLS; TANDEM CONFIGURATION; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CELLS;

EID: 77950860606     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.02.040     Document Type: Article

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