High Concentrator PhotoVoltaics efficiencies: Present status and forecast

P Pérez-Higueras, E Muñoz, G Almonacid… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic devices are in a mature technological stage with a long and wide field
experience; but if this source of energy wants to compete against other renewable energy …

Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics

A Polman, HA Atwater - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
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Tandem solar cells based on high-efficiency c-Si bottom cells: top cell requirements for> 30% efficiency

TP White, NN Lal, KR Catchpole - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tandem solar cells based on crystalline silicon present a practical route toward low-cost
cells with efficiencies above 30%. Here, we evaluate a dual-junction tandem configuration …

Will we exceed 50% efficiency in photovoltaics?

A Luque - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Solar energy is the most abundant and reliable source of energy we have to provide for the
multi-terawatt challenge we are facing. Although huge, this resource is relatively dispersed …

Near 1 V open circuit voltage InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cells

CG Bailey, DV Forbes, RP Raffaelle… - Applied Physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Ten-layer InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) solar cells exhibiting enhanced short circuit current
(J sc) and open circuit voltage (V oc) comparable to a control GaAs pin solar cell are …

Planar micro-optic solar concentrator

JH Karp, EJ Tremblay, JE Ford - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We present a new approach to solar concentration where sunlight collected by each lens in
a two-dimensional lens array is coupled into a shared, planar waveguide using localized …

High efficiency solar cells combining a perovskite and a silicon heterojunction solar cells via an optical splitting system

H Uzu, M Ichikawa, M Hino, K Nakano… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We have applied an optical splitting system in order to achieve very high conversion
efficiency for a full spectrum multi-junction solar cell. This system consists of multiple solar …

High-efficiency III–V multijunction solar cells

SP Philipps, F Dimroth, AW Bett - McEvoy's handbook of photovoltaics, 2018 - Elsevier
This chapter discusses solar cells made of III–V semiconductors, and how they have
reached efficiencies of over 46% in 2016, the highest of any photovoltaic technology to date …