Industrially feasible all-purpose metal-wrap-through concentrator solar cells

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2106-2110

  Fellmeth, Tobias ^a   Ebert, Matthieu ^a   Efinger, Raphael ^a   Hadrich, Ingrid ^a   Clement, Florian ^a   Biro, Daniel ^a   Noriega, Pablo ^b   Caparros, Sebastian ^b   Castano, Fernando J ^b  

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

^b Abengoa Solar NT   (Spain)

Author keywords

CPV; emitter window; low concentrator; MWT; silicon solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFICIENCY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ARBITRARY NUMBER; AVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; CONCENTRATION FACTORS; CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS; LOW CONCENTRATOR; NEGATIVE POLARITY; SOLAR CELL DEVICES; STATE OF THE ART;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 84912144584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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