Improvement in multi-crystalline silicon solar cell efficiency via addition of luminescent material to EVA encapsulation layer

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Klampaftis, E ^a   Richards, B S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

encapsulation; EVA; luminescence; photovoltaic; silicon; spectral conversion

Indexed keywords

ENCAPSULATION LAYER; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATES; EVA; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; MODULE MANUFACTURING; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC DYE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PRODUCTION SCALE; SCREEN-PRINTED; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SPECTRAL CONVERSION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ETHYLENE; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 79953660609     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1019     Document Type: Article

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