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Effect of quantum efficiency on the performance of multijunction tandem cells

Tor Oskar Saetre

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PhysicsPhotonStack (abstract data type)Tandembusiness.industryMonte Carlo methodOptoelectronicsQuantum efficiencyPhotonicsbusinessAbsorption (electromagnetic radiation)Photonic crystal

description

New insight into the potential of practical solar cells can be given through alternative modeling approaches like Monte Carlo simulations. In the present work, the performance of three stacks of cells connected in series was examined at different levels of internal quantum efficiency. Incident photons, generated by employing the ASTM G173-03 and E490-00a data sets, are accounted for individually as they interact with the stack of cells. The values of the different bandgaps were chosen from a paper by K. Tanabe (2009), and the performance was studied based on photon dynamics.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-06-012015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)
https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2015.7356110