Roadmap towards efficiencies over 40% at ultra-high concentrations (> 1000 suns)

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 000775-000778

  Barrigon, E ^a   Rey Stolle, I ^a   Garcia, I ^a   Algora, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTACT PROCESS; CURRENT MATCHING; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; MATERIAL AVAILABILITY; ROADMAP; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ULTRA-HIGH;

ENERGY GAP; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84861079899     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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