Device architectures for enhanced photon recycling in thin-film multijunction solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sheng, Xing ^a   Yun, Myoung Hee ^b   Zhang, Chen ^a   Al Okaily, AlA'A M ^c   Masouraki, Maria ^a   Shen, Ling ^d   Wang, Shuodao ^a   Wilson, William L ^a   Kim, Jin Young ^b   Ferreira, Placid ^c   Li, Xiuling ^a   Yablonovitch, Eli ^e   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTONS; RECYCLING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THIN FILMS;

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; CELL ARCHITECTURES; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTON EXTRACTIONS; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY;

REFLECTIVE COATINGS;

EID: 84920929286     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400919     Document Type: Article

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