Bifacial n-type silicon solar cells for upconversion applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-68

  Rüdiger, Marc ^a   Fischer, Stefan ^a   Frank, Judith ^a   Ivaturi, Aruna ^b   Richards, Bryce S ^b,c,d   Krämer, Karl W ^e   Hermle, Martin ^a   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a,f  

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

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti reflection coatings; Bifacial solar cells; Efficiency limits; n type silicon solar cells; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

BIFACIAL SILICON SOLAR CELL; BIFACIAL SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY LIMITS; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERTER;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901929972     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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