A review of concentrator silicon solar cells

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 1697-1708

  Xing, Yupeng ^a   Han, Peide ^b   Wang, Shuai ^b   Liang, Peng ^b   Lou, Shishu ^b   Zhang, Yuanbo ^b   Hu, Shaoxu ^b   Zhu, Huishi ^b   Zhao, Chunhua ^b   Mi, Yanhong ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Concentration ratio; Concentrator; Device structure; Efficiency; Series resistance; Silicon solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COSTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR PANELS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; CONCENTRATION RATIO; CONCENTRATOR; DEVICE STRUCTURE; ENERGY SHORTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SERIES RESISTANCES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84938586664     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.035     Document Type: Review

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