Up and down-conversion for photovoltaics

Physics of Nanostructured Solar Cells

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-217

  Conibeer, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; IMPACT IONIZATION; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DISCRETE ENERGY LEVELS; DISCRETE TRANSITIONS; INCIDENT PHOTON ENERGY; INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELLS; LIMITING EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOT NANOSTRUCTURES; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84892308400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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