Upconverter silicon solar cell devices for efficient utilization of sub-band-gap photons under concentrated solar radiation

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 183-189

  Fischer, Stefan ^a   Ivaturi, Aruna ^b   Frohlich, Benjamin ^a   Rudiger, Marc ^a   Richter, Armin ^a   Kramer, Karl W ^c   Richards, Bryce S ^b,d   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a,e  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d NELSON MANDELA AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Tanzania)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; photovoltaic cells; silicon; spectral conversion; upconversion (UC)

Indexed keywords

BIFACIAL SILICON SOLAR CELL; CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; PERFLUOROCYCLOBUTYL; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION;

ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891560018     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2282744     Document Type: Article

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