Temperature-dependent quantum efficiency of quantum dot enhanced multi-junction solar cells

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1407, Issue , 2011, Pages 50-53

  Thériault, Olivier ^a   Wheeldon, Jeffrey F ^a   Walker, Alex ^a   Bitar, Paul ^a   Yandt, Mark D ^a   Valdivia, Christopher E ^a,b   Hinzer, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Cyrium Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentrated photovoltaics; external quantum efficiency; multijunction solar cell; solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055176647     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3658293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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