Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 474-480

  Werner, Jérémie ^a   Barraud, Loris ^b   Walter, Arnaud ^b   Bräuninger, Matthias ^a   Sahli, Florent ^a   Sacchetto, Davide ^b   Tétreault, Nicolas ^b   Paviet Salomon, Bertrand ^b   Moon, Soo Jin ^b   Allebé, Christophe ^b   Despeisse, Matthieu ^b   Nicolay, Sylvain ^b   De Wolf, Stefaan ^a   Niesen, Bjoern ^a,b   Ballif, Christophe ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY; STEADY-STATE EFFICIENCY; TANDEM CONFIGURATION; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85013032745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00254     Document Type: Article

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