General design considerations for making optimal use of new photovoltaic materials

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bremner, S P ^a   Yi, C ^a   Almansouri, I ^a   Ho Baillie, A ^a   Green, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

active silicon substrate; detailed balance; limiting efficiency; multi junction solar cells

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE SUBSTRATES; CURRENT MISMATCH; DETAILED BALANCE; GENERAL DESIGNS; LIMITING EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84961589755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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