Record 12.34% stabilized conversion efficiency in a large area thin-film silicon tandem (MICROMORPH™) module

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1441-1447

  Cashmore, Julian S ^a   Apolloni, Marco ^a   Braga, Antonio ^a   Caglar, Onur ^a   Cervetto, Valentina ^a   Fenner, Yves ^a   Goldbach Aschemann, Stephanie ^a   Goury, Celine ^a   Hötzel, Jochen E ^a   Iwahashi, Takashi ^b   Kalas, Jiri ^a   Kitamura, Masayuki ^b   Klindworth, Markus ^a   Kupich, Markus ^a   Leu, George Felix ^a   Lin, Jun ^b   Lindic, Marie Helene ^a   Losio, Paolo A ^a   Mates, Tomas ^a   Matsunaga, Daisuke ^b   Mereu, Bogdan ^a   Nguyen, Xuan Viet ^a   Psimoulis, Ioanna ^a   Ristau, Sergej ^a   Roschek, Tobias ^a   Salabas, Aurel ^a   Salabas, Elena Lorena ^a   Sinicco, Ivan ^a   more..

^a TEL Solar AG   (Switzerland)

^b TOKYO ELECTRON LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

amorphous; conversion efficiency; microcrystalline; photovoltaic; silicon; tandem; thin film

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; MICROCRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SILICON; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

COST OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCTIONS; MICROCRYSTALLINE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; STABILIZED EFFICIENCY; TANDEM; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84944158273     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2642     Document Type: Article

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