Hot carrier solar cells: Challenges and recent progress

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-60

  Green, Martin A ^a   Conibeer, Gavin ^a   König, Dirk ^a   Shrestha, Santosh ^a   Huang, Shujuan ^a   Aliberti, Pasquale ^a   Treiber, Lara ^a   Patterson, Robert ^a   Veettil, Binesh Puthen ^a   Hsieh, Andy ^a   Feng, Yu ^a   Luque, A ^b   Marti, A ^b   Linares, P G ^b   Canovas E ^b   Antolln E ^b   Marrón, D Fuertes ^b   Tablero, C ^b   Hernandez E ^b   Guillemoles, J F ^c,d   Huang, L ^c,d   Le Bris, A ^c,d   Schmidt, T ^e   Clad, R ^e   Tayebjee, M ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT CARRIERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HOT CARRIER SOLAR CELLS; INTRINSIC POTENTIAL; LIMITING EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RECENT PROGRESS; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SUPPLY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650149075     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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