Series vs parallel connected organic tandem solar cells: Cell performance and impact on the design and operation of functional modules

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 495-504

  Etxebarria, Ikerne ^a,b   Furlan, Alice ^c   Ajuria, Jon ^a,b   Fecher, Frank W ^d   Voigt, Monika ^d,e   Brabec, Christoph J ^d,e   Wienk, Martijn M ^c   Slooff, Lenneke ^f   Veenstra, Sjoerd ^f   Gilot, Jan ^g   Pacios, Roberto ^a,b  

^a IK4 IKERLAN   (Spain)

^b CIC MICROGUNE   (Spain)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

R2R module processing; Tandem organic solar cells; Three terminal parallel connection; Two terminal series connection

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ENERGY GAP;

DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; MATERIAL COMBINATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS; SERIES CONNECTIONS; TERMINAL CONNECTIONS; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION; TWO-TERMINAL DEVICES; CELL PERFORMANCE; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; PARALLEL-CONNECTED; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907217033     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.07.047     Document Type: Article

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