Luminescent layers for enhanced silicon solar cell performance: Up-conversion

A. Shalav; B. S. Richards; M. A. Green

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2007.02.007

Luminescent layers for enhanced silicon solar cell performance: Up-conversion

A. Shalav, B. S. Richards, M. A. Green

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

An up-converting material can generate one high-energy photon for every two or more incident low-energy photons. This material when placed on the rear side of a traditional bi-facial photovoltaic solar cell has the potential to increase the overall efficiency of the PV device by utilising sub-bandgap photons that would otherwise be transmitted through the device. This paper reviews and examines the application of rare-earth doped inorganic phosphors for achieving external quantum efficiencies for sub-bandgap photons for a bi-facial crystalline silicon photovoltaic device. The mechanisms for up-conversion are discussed and recent experimental results on a bi-facial silicon photovoltaic-upconversion device are analysed. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	829-842
Number of pages	14
Journal	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Volume	91
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2007.02.007
Publication status	Published - 23 May 2007

Keywords

Erbium
Luminescence
Photovoltaics
Rare-earths
Silicon
Solar cells
Up-conversion

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Luminescent layers for enhanced silicon solar cell performance: Up-conversion

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