High-efficiency polycrystalline thin film tandem solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2676-2681

  Kranz, Lukas ^a,d   Abate, Antonio ^b   Feurer, Thomas ^a   Fu, Fan ^a   Avancini, Enrico ^a   Löckinger, Johannes ^a   Reinhard, Patrick ^a   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b,c   Grätzel, Michael ^b   Buecheler, Stephan ^a   Tiwari, Ayodhya N ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CIGS solar cell; perovskite solar cell; tandem solar cell; transparent contacts

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; INFRARED DEVICES; PEROVSKITE; PHOTONS; THIN FILMS;

BOTTOM CELLS; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN FILM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SUBBANDS; TANDEM DEVICES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84937124046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01108     Document Type: Article

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