CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite / silicon tandem solar cells: Characterization based optical simulations

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2015, Pages A263-A278

  Filipič, Miha ^a   Löper, Philipp ^b   Niesen, Bjoern ^b   De Wolf, Stefaan ^b   Krč, Janez ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^b   Topič, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; CRYSTALLINE SILICON CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; OPTICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL SIMULATORS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84928037400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.00A263     Document Type: Article

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