Detailed Balance Solar Cell Efficiency Limits for Internal Fluorescence Yield Slightly Less Than 100%

Owen Miller; Eli Yablonovitch

doi:10.1364/OSE.2010.SWD5

Imaging and Applied Optics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010),
paper SWD5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2010.SWD5

Detailed Balance Solar Cell Efficiency Limits for Internal Fluorescence Yield Slightly Less Than 100%

Owen Miller and Eli Yablonovitch

Optics for Solar Energy 2010

Tucson, Arizona United States
7–8 June 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55752-892-6

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O. Miller and E. Yablonovitch, "Detailed Balance Solar Cell Efficiency Limits for Internal Fluorescence Yield Slightly Less Than 100%," in Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010), paper SWD5.

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Abstract

The Shockley-Queisser approach to calculating solar cell efficiencies assumes 100% internal fluorescence yield. This is misleading, as even a slight drop in internal yield to 90% already causes a severe drop below the Shockley-Queisser limit.

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