2 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011
Electromagnetic approach to ultrathin solar cell efficiencies
A. Niv, M. Gharghi, Z. R. Abrams +2
Current methods for evaluating solar cell efficiencies cannot be applied to extremely thin cells where phenomena from the realm of near field optics prevail. We overcome this probl…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011
Theoretical Efficiency Comparison between Carrier Multiplication and Down-Conversion 3rd Generation Solar Cell Designs
Z. R. Abrams, A. Niv, C. Gladden +2
Methods of exceeding the detailed balance limit for a single junction solar cell have included down-converting high energy photons to produce two photons; and carrier multiplicatio…