Efficiency limit and example of a photonic solar cell

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Peters, Marius ^a   Christoph Goldschmidt, Jan ^a   Blsi, Benedikt ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR EMISSION; BRAGG STACKS; DETAILED BALANCE; EDGE FILTERS; ENTROPY GENERATION; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; RADIATIVE LOSS; REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL MATERIALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 80052392254     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3622669     Document Type: Article

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