Advances in up-and down-converted fluorescence for high efficiency solar cells using rare-earth doped fluorozirconate-based glasses and glass ceramics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7772, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Paßlick, Christian ^a   Henke, Bastian ^a,b   Császára, István ^a   Ahrens, Bernd ^b   Miclea, Paul T ^a,b   Johnson, Jacqueline A ^c   Schweizer, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER CENTER FOR SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS CSP   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Er and Eudoping; Fluorozirconate glasses and glass ceramics; Nanocrystals; Silicon solar cell; Up and down conversion

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; ANNEALING CONDITION; ATTRACTIVE SYSTEMS; CHLORINE IONS; DOWN-CONVERTERS; DOWNCONVERSION; ER- AND EUDOPING; ERBIUM DISTRIBUTION; ERBIUM DOPED; EUROPIUM-DOPED; EXCITATION LASERS; EXCITATION POWER; FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS; GLASS SAMPLES; GLASSES AND GLASS CERAMICS; HIGH TRANSPARENCY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; INTENSITY MAPPING; KEY ISSUES; LIGHT OUTPUT; RARE EARTH DOPED; SCATTERING LOSS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRAL RANGE; UP-CONVERSION;

CHLORINE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; FLUORESCENCE; GLASS CERAMICS; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77957825946     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.860196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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