Bifacial Si heterojunction-perovskite organic-inorganic tandem to produce highly efficient (ηT∗ ∼33%) solar cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2015, Pages

  Asadpour, Reza ^a   Chavali, Raghu V K ^a   Ryyan Khan, M ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PEROVSKITE; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CURRENT MATCHING; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; SERIES-CONNECTED; SINGLE JUNCTION; STATE OF THE ART; THICKNESS VARIATION; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84935028397     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4922375     Document Type: Article

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