Effect of Spectral Irradiance Variations on the Performance of Highly Efficient Environment-Friendly Solar Cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1150-1157

  Fernandez, Eduardo F ^a,b   Cruz, Florencia Almonacid ^a   Mallick, Tapas K ^b   Sundaram, Senthilarasu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate conditions; environment friendly materials; high efficiency solar cells; photovoltaic (PV) simulations; solar spectral effects

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CLIMATE CONDITION; ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY MATERIALS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SPECTRAL EFFECTS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84933048336     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2434593     Document Type: Article

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