Towards an optimized all lattice-matched InAlAs/InGaAsP/InGaAs multijunction solar cell with efficiency >50%

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Leite, Marina S ^a,b,c   Woo, Robyn L ^d   Munday, Jeremy N ^a,e   Hong, William D ^d   Mesropian, Shoghig ^d   Law, Daniel C ^d   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE MODELING; INALAS; INP; LATTICE-MATCHED; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SINGLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SPECTRUM SPLITTING; TANDEM DEVICES;

GALLIUM; OPTIMIZATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84872976702     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4758300     Document Type: Article

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