A Review of Ultrahigh Efficiency III-V Semiconductor Compound Solar Cells: Multijunction Tandem, Lower Dimensional, Photonic Up/Down Conversion and Plasmonic Nanometallic Structures

A Review of Ultrahigh Efficiency III-V Semiconductor Compound Solar Cells: Multijunction Tandem, Lower Dimensional, Photonic Up/Down Conversion and Plasmonic Nanometallic Structures

Solar cells are a promising renewable, carbon-free electric energy resource to address the fossil fuel shortage and global warming. Energy conversion efficiencies around 40% have been recently achieved in laboratories using III-V semiconductor compounds as photovoltaic materials. This article review...

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Main Author: Katsuaki Tanabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-07-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
solar energy
renewable energy
clean energy
solar cells
photovoltaics
semiconductors
multijunction
quantum wells
quantum dots
surface plasmons
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/3/504/

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