Review on up/down conversion materials for solar cell application

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2608-2613

  Verma, Deepak ^a   Saetre, Tor O ^a   Midtgård, Ole Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Down Conversion; Silicon; Solar Cell; UP conversion

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; DOWN CONVERSION; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; LOWER ENERGIES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; UP CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION TECHNIQUE;

ENERGY GAP; PHOTONS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84869447137     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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