Efficiency enhancement of organic and thin-film silicon solar cells with photochemical upconversion

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 22794-22801

  Schulze, Tim F ^a   Czolk, Jens ^b   Cheng, Yuen Yap ^a   Fückel, Burkhard ^a   MacQueen, Rowan W ^a   Khoury, Tony ^a   Crossley, Maxwell J ^a   Stannowski, Bernd ^c   Lips, Klaus ^c   Lemmer, Uli ^b   Colsmann, Alexander ^b   Schmidt, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CURRENT INCREASE; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; MODERATE CONCENTRATION; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RATE EQUATIONS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL REGION; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ANNIHILATION; UP-CONVERSION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84868098921     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp309636m     Document Type: Article

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