Location-Specific Spectral and Thermal Effects in Tracking and Fixed Tilt Photovoltaic Systems. [PDF]
iScience, 2020 The efficiency of photovoltaic modules in the field is generally lower than the efficiency under standard testing conditions due to temperature and spectral effects.
Ripalda JM +3 more
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Adaptation of Cu(In, Ga)Se2 photovoltaics for full unbiased photocharge of integrated solar vanadium redox flow batteries [PDF]
, 2021 The integration of photovoltaics and vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) is a promising alternative for the direct conversion and storage of solar energy in a single device, considering their inherent higher energy density versus other redox pairs ...
Andreu, Teresa +5 more
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Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change [PDF]
, 2023 Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is fundamental for decarbonizing the global economy and supporting the renewable energy transitions that are needed to combat climate change.
Arneth, Almut +3 more
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Next-Generation Quantum Dots-Based Multijunction Photovoltaics
, 2022 Photovoltaic cells (PVc), as an energy provider to the next generation and the biggest source of renewable energy. Since the last decade improving efficiency and reducing the cost of PVc has been a subject of active research among scientists. Promising progress in the field of material science and manufacturing process at Nano-level played a big role ...
Prajapati, Ankul, H, Bade M
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Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators [PDF]
2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conference, 2006 Multijunction solar cells provide high-performance technology pathways leading to potentially low-cost electricity generated from concentrated sunlight. The National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has funded different III-V multijunction solar cell technologies and various solar concentration approaches.
Robert McConnell, Martha Symko-Davies
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Capacitance Measurements for Subcell Characterization in Multijunction Solar Cells. [PDF]
, 2010 On this paper we present an alternative way to analyze de electronic properties of each subcell from the complete device. By illuminating the cell with light sources which energy is near one of the subcell bandgaps, it is possible to “erase” the presence
Algora del Valle, Carlos +6 more
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On top of commercial photovoltaics [PDF]
, 2017 The efficiency of single junction solar cells is intrinsically limited and high efficiency multi junctions are not cost effective yet.
Albrecht, S., Rech, B.
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Numerical simulation of Ge solar cells using D-AMPS-1D code [PDF]
, 2012 A solar cell is a solid state device that converts the energy of sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. When light with photon energies greater than the band gap is absorbed by a semiconductor material, free electrons and free ...
Francisco Rubinelli +9 more
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Adhesion of antireflective coatings in multijunction photovoltaics [PDF]
2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2016 The development of a new composite dual cantilever beam (cDCB) thin-film adhesion testing method is reported, which allows the measurement of adhesion on the fragile thin substrates used in multijunction photovoltaics. We address the adhesion of several antireflective coating systems on multijunction cells. By varying interface chemistry and morphology,
Ryan Brock +2 more
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Short circuit current improvement in planar heterojunction organic solar cells by multijunction charge transfer [PDF]
, 2012 A multijunction structure was applied on an organic photovoltaic (OPV) device for broadening the absorption spectrum and enhancing the power conversion efficiency through charge transfer process.
Chan, KL +5 more
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