Optoelectronic design of multijunction wire-array solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002669-002673

  Turner Evans, Daniel B ^a   Kelzenberg, Michael D ^a   Chen, Chris T ^a   Warmann, Emily C ^a   Tamboli, Adele C ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MATCHING; DESIGN CRITERION; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; GAAS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; III-V ON SI; LIGHT COLLECTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICROWIRE; MULTIJUNCTION; OPTICAL MODELING; OUTER SURFACE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLANAR CELLS; SCATTERING PARTICLES; SINGLE JUNCTION; SMOOTH SURFACE; THINNER LAYERS; WIRE PACKING;

GERMANIUM; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON;

WIRE;

EID: 84861024873     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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