Doubling the power output of bifacial thin-film GaAs solar cells by embedding them in luminescent waveguides

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 991-996

  Sheng, Xing ^a   Shen, Ling ^c   Kim, Taehwan ^b   Li, Lanfang ^a   Wang, Xinran ^a   Dowdy, Ryan ^a   Froeter, Paul ^a   Shigeta, Kazuki ^a   Li, Xiuling ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^d   Giebink, Noel C ^b   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

GaAs solar cells; luminescent solar concentrators; transfer printing

Indexed keywords

BACKSIDE REFLECTORS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; GAAS SOLAR CELLS; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; SCATTERED PHOTONS; THIN-FILM GAAS SOLAR CELLS; TRANSFER PRINTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLAR CELLS; WAVEGUIDES;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84882283504     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201201064     Document Type: Article

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