Approaching the Shockley-Queisser limit: General assessment of the main limiting mechanisms in photovoltaic cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vossier, Alexis ^a   Gualdi, Federico ^a   Dollet, Alain ^a   Ares, Richard ^b   Aimez, Vincent ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

CELL ARCHITECTURES; EFFICIENCY LIMITS; ILLUMINATION LEVELS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL LIMITS; THEORETICAL VALUES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84923638649     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4905277     Document Type: Article

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