Six not so easy pieces in intermediate band solar cell research

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8620, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Marti A ^a   Antolin E ^a,b   Garcia Linares P ^a   Ramiro, I ^a   Artacho, I ^a   Lopez E ^a   Hernandez E ^a   Mendes, M J ^a,c   Mellor, A ^a   Tobias I ^a   Fuertes Marron D ^a   Tablero, C ^a   Cristobal A B ^a   Bailey, C G ^d   Gonzalez, M ^d,e   Yakes, M ^d   Lumb, M P ^d,f   Walters, R ^d   Luque, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fundamentals; intermediate band solar cells; next generation solar cells; quantum dots

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FUNDAMENTALS; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; MINIBANDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84878546369     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2002533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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