Modelling of organic triple-junction solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8435, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Minnaert, Ben ^a   Veelaert, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

absorption window; multi junction; organic PV; photovoltaic energy; triple junction

Indexed keywords

DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; EFFICIENCY GAIN; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MULTI-JUNCTION; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC PV; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SUB-CELLS; TRIPLE JUNCTION CELLS; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; TRIPLE-JUNCTIONS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84862289265     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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