Enhanced up-conversion for photovoltaics via concentrating integrated optics

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Arnaoutakis, Georgios E ^a   Marques Hueso, Jose ^a   Ivaturi, Aruna ^a   Krämer, Karl W ^b   Fischer, Stefan ^c   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^c   Richards, Bryce S ^a,d  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LIGHT; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CONCENTRATING PV; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MODERATE CONCENTRATION; PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; UP-CONVERSION; YTTRIUM FLUORIDE;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84896374225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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