Luminescent down-shifting experiment and modelling with multiple photovoltaic technologies

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 479-497

  Alonso Álvarez, Diego ^a,e   Ross, David ^a   Klampaftis, Efthymios ^a   McIntosh, Keith R ^b   Jia, Shijun ^c   Storiz, Paul ^c   Stolz, Theodore ^c   Richards, Bryce S ^a,d  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PV Lighthouse   (Australia)

^c ITW Technology Center   (United States)

^d NELSON MANDELA AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Tanzania)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CdTe; CIGS; luminescence; modelling; photovoltaic; silicon; spectral conversion

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LUMINESCENCE; MODELS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SILICON; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; CDTE; CIGS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL CONVERSION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924437316     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2462     Document Type: Article

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