Development of multijunction thin film solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000622-000625

  Seyrling, S ^a   Bucheler S ^a   Chirila, A ^a   Perrenoud, J ^a   Wenger, S ^b   Nakada, T ^c   Gratzel M ^b   Tiwari, A N ^a  

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

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CU(IN , GA)SE; DUAL-JUNCTION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EFFICIENCY LOSS; LIMITING FACTORS; MULTIJUNCTION; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SPECTRAL TUNABILITY; TANDEM CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 77951614912     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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