Efficiency above the shockley-queisser limit by using nanophotonic effects to create multiple effective bandgaps with a single semiconductor

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-70

  Yu, Zongfu ^a,b   Sandhu, Sunil ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

light trapping; nanostructured solar cells; Photon management; Shockley Queisser limit; tandem solar cells

Indexed keywords

LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLAR CELLS; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; SOLAR CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84892160539     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403653j     Document Type: Article

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