Low-Cost High-Performance Concentrated PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Solar Cell Production and Optimization using III-V Quantum Dot Material Band-Gap Engineering

S. Fafard

doi:10.1364/OSE.2012.SW2A.3

Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012),
paper SW2A.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2012.SW2A.3

Low-Cost High-Performance Concentrated PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Solar Cell Production and Optimization using III-V Quantum Dot Material Band-Gap Engineering

S. Fafard

Optics for Solar Energy 2012

Eindhoven Netherlands
11–14 November 2012
ISBN: 978-1-55752-952-7

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S. Fafard, "Low-Cost High-Performance Concentrated PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Solar Cell Production and Optimization using III-V Quantum Dot Material Band-Gap Engineering," in Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012), paper SW2A.3.

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Abstract

This presentation reviews how multi-junction III-V cells are optimized for performance and cost, using semiconductor bandgap engineering. Conversion efficiencies around 40% are obtained when used in CPV applications at concentrations between 100 and 1000 suns.

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