Narrow-bandwidth solar upconversion: Case studies of existing systems and generalized fundamental limits

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Briggs, Justin A ^a,b   Atre, Ashwin C ^b   Dionne, Jennifer A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EFFICIENCY; EXISTING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; NARROW BANDWIDTH; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR TECHNOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

BANDWIDTH; QUANTUM YIELD;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84875802370     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796092     Document Type: Article

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43. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4796092 E-JAPIAU-113-002313 for (1) a discussion of the energy levels and optimization routine used to model the upconversion process, (2) calculation of currents in each cell, (3) a discussion of the relationship between upconverter relaxation energy and upconverter bandwidth, (4) a table of the spectral parameters used to model upconversion in the bimolecular and lanthanide nanoparticle case studies, and (5) a brief note on solar cell non-idealities.