Optical modeling of an efficient water splitting device based on bismuth vanadate photoanode and micromorph silicon solar cells

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3083-3086

  Han, Lihao ^a   Abdi, Fatwa F ^a,b   Van De Krol, Roel ^b   Dam, Bernard ^a   Zeman, Miro ^a   Smets, Arno H M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

optical modeling; solar hydrogen production; spectrum utilization

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

BISMUTH VANADATES; COMBINED CONFIGURATION; METAL OXIDE MATERIALS; OPTICAL MODELING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN; SPECTRUM UTILIZATION;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84912142422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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