IBPOWER: Intermediate band materials and solar cells for photovoltaics with high efficiency and reduced cost

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 002486-002491

  Marti A ^a   Antolin E ^a   Linares, P G ^a   Canovas E ^a   Fuertes Marron D ^a   Tablero, C ^a   Mendes, M ^a   Mellor, A ^a   Tobias I ^a   Levy, M Y ^a   Hernandez E ^a   Luque, A ^a   Farmer, C D ^b   Stanley, C R ^b   Campion, R P ^c   Hall, J L ^c   Novikov, S V ^c   Foxon, C T ^c   Scheer, R ^d   Marsen, B ^d   Schock, H W ^d   Picault, M ^e   Chaix, C ^e   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e RIBER SA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; BAND GAPS; BREATHING MODES; BULK SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; ENERGY LEVEL; EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME; GAAS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERMEDIATE BAND MATERIALS; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; QUANTUM DOT; REDUCED COST;

COST REDUCTION; ENERGY GAP; IMPURITIES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77951549336     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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