Efficient broadband near-infrared quantum cutting for solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9671-9676

  Teng, Yu ^a   Zhou, Jiajia ^a   Liu, Xiaofe ^b   Ye, Song ^a   Qiu, Jianrong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; YTTERBIUM;

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; DIRECT EXCITATION; DOWNCONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; EXCITATION POWER; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; NEAR INFRARED; QUANTUM CUTTING; THERMALIZATION; VISIBLE REGION;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 77952036940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009671     Document Type: Article

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