Broadband solar wavelength transformation of visible light to near-infrared radiation in Ce3+-Nd3+-Yb3+ triple-doped yttrium aluminum garnet

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 634-640

  Song, Pei ^a   Jiang, Chun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

near infrared quantum cutting (NIR QC); photovoltaic (PV) cells; rare earth (RE) material devices; Solar wavelength transformation (WT); theoretical modeling

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC; QUANTUM CUTTING; RARE-EARTH (RE) MATERIAL/DEVICES; SOLAR WAVELENGTH TRANSFORMATION (WT); THEORETICAL MODELING;

ALUMINUM; GARNETS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WAVELENGTH; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879958225     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2013.2266659     Document Type: Article

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