Impact of sub-cell internal luminescence yields on energy conversion efficiencies of tandem solar cells: A design principle

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Lin ^a   Kim, Changsu ^a   Yoshita, Masahiro ^a   Chen, Shaoqiang ^a   Sato, Shintaroh ^a   Mochizuki, Toshimitsu ^a   Akiyama, Hidefumi ^a   Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; BOTTOM CELLS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; GEOMETRIC MEAN; LOGARITHMIC DEPENDENCE; LUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; SUB-CELLS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENCE; SOLAR CELLS;

DROPS;

EID: 84893371191     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861464     Document Type: Article

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