Is Auger recombination the ultimate performance limiter in concentrator solar cells?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Vossier, Alexis ^a   Hirsch, Baruch ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER RECOMBINATION; BAND GAPS; CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS; MULTIJUNCTION; RATE LIMITING;

AUGERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GERMANIUM; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 78249247739     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3510474     Document Type: Article

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