Detailed balance limit of the efficiency of multilevel intermediate band solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Nozawa, Tomohiro ^a,b   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETAILED BALANCE; ENERGY LEVEL; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79955688535     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3583587     Document Type: Article

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