Recent progress on quantum dot intermediate band solar cells

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Okada, Yoshitaka ^a   Yoshid, Katsuhisa ^a   Shoji, Yasushi ^a   Sogabe, Tomah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intermediate band solar cell; Quantum dot solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLATTICES; QUANTUM NANOSTRUCTURES; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS; SINGLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; TECHNOLOGY-BASED;

MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84884365785     PISSN: 13492543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.10.20132007     Document Type: Review

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