Engineering the electronic band structure for multiband solar cells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Lopez N ^a   Reichertz, L A ^a,b   Yu, K M ^a   Campman, K ^c   Walukiewicz, W ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Rose Street Labs Energy ^*  (United States)

^c Sumika Electronic Materials Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND ANTI-CROSSING MODELS; DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; ENERGY BAND; ENERGY BAND STRUCTURE; MULTIBAND; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ALLOYS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 78651334835     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.028701     Document Type: Article

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