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Mechanically stacked four-junction concentrator solar cells
Año:2015
Áreas de investigación
  • Células solares,
  • Tecnología de dispositivos para ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica
Datos
Descripción
Multijunction solar cells can be fabricated by bonding together component cells that are grown separately. Because the component cells are each grown lattice-matched to suitable substrates, this technique allows alloys of different lattice constants to be combined without the structural defects introduced when using metamorphic buffers. Here we present results on the fabrication and performance of four-junction mechanical stacks composed of GaInP/GaAs and GaInAsP/GaInAs tandems, grown on GaAs and InP substrates, respectively. The two tandems were bonded together with a lowindex, transparent epoxy that acts as an omni-directional reflector to the GaAs bandedge luminescence, while simultaneously transmitting nearly all of the sub-bandgap light. As determined by electroluminescence measurements and optical modeling, the GaAs subcell demonstrates a higher internal radiative limit and thus higher subcell voltage, compared with GaAs subcells without enhanced internal optics; all four subcells exhibit excellent material quality. The device was fabricated with four contact terminals so that each tandem can be operated at its maximum power point, which raises the cumulative efficiency and decreases spectral sensitivity. Efficiencies exceeding 38% at one-sun have been demonstrated. Eliminating the series resistance is the key challenge for the concentrator cells. We will discuss the performance of one-sun and concentrator versions of the device, and compare the results to recently fabricated monolithic four-junction cells.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
New Orleans, LA (EEUU)
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-1-4799-7944-8
DOI
10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356151
Fecha inicio congreso
14/06/2015
Fecha fin congreso
19/06/2015
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Título de las actas
Proc. 42nd IEEE PVSC
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Participantes
  • Autor: M.A. Steiner
  • Autor: J.F. Geisz
  • Autor: J.S. Ward
  • Autor: Ivan Garcia Vara UPM
  • Autor: D.J. Friedman
  • Autor: R.R. King
  • Autor: P.T. Chiu
  • Autor: R.M. France
  • Autor: A. Duda
  • Autor: J. Olavarria
  • Autor: M. Young
  • Autor: S.R. Kurtz
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Semiconductores III-V
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Energía Solar
  • Departamento: Electrónica Física