Luminescent ethylene vinyl acetate encapsulation layers for enhancing the short wavelength spectral response and efficiency of silicon photovoltaic modules

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-36

  Klampaftis, Efthymios ^a   Congiu, Martina ^b   Robertson, Neil ^b   Richards, Bryce S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encapsulation; luminescence; photovoltaic (PV) cells; silicon devices

Indexed keywords

ENCAPSULATION LAYER; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATES; EUROPIUM COMPLEX; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON (MC-SI); OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PERYLENES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PRODUCTION LINE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SILICON DEVICES; SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

CAPILLARY FLOW; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENCAPSULATION; EUROPIUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYSILICON;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84859542080     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2162720     Document Type: Article

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