Generalized spectral performance evaluation of multijunction solar cells using a multicore, parallelized version of SMARTS

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1477, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-126

  Jaus, Joachim ^a   Gueymard, Christian A ^b  

^a Black Photon Instruments GmbH   (Germany)

^b SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Current balance; Multijunction.; SMARTS; Spectral irradiation; Spectral performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877091588     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4753849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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