Optoelectronic analysis of multijunction wire array solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Turner Evans, Daniel B ^a   Chen, Christopher T ^a   Emmer, Hal ^a   McMahon, William E ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK SURFACE FIELDS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SINGLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GERMANIUM; MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

WIRE;

EID: 84880889376     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4812397     Document Type: Article

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