Analytical treatment of Trivich-Flinn and Shockley-Queisser photovoltaic efficiency limits using polylogarithms

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-134

  Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

limiting efficiency; Shockley Queisser limit

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; POLYLOGARITHMS; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMIT; TANDEM CELLS; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84857446573     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1120     Document Type: Article

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