Approaching the 29% limit efficiency of silicon solar cells

By R. M. Swanson. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005., 2005

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Yu-chen Shen
2. Russelle De Jesus-Tabajonda
3. Gerly Aniero
4. David D. Smith
5. Staffan Westerberg
6. P. Cousins
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In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Yu-chen Shen
2. Russelle De Jesus-Tabajonda
3. Gerly Aniero
4. David D. Smith
5. Staffan Westerberg
6. P. Cousins

Citations in the corpus

• Modifying the solar spectrum to enhance silicon solar cell efficiency—An overview of available materials (2007, background): “While the classical efficiency limit is currently estimated to be 29% [4], detailed-balance calculations show that this could improve to approximately 37% [5,6] using spectrum modification at one sun.”
• Charge Carrier Separation in Solar Cells (2015, background): “Nevertheless, even in advanced designs of silicon solar cells, there is a considerable number of minority carriers flowing to the “wrong” contact where they are lost by surface recombination [8]–[11].”
• Toward the Practical Limits of Silicon Solar Cells (2014, methodology): “Queisser limit, which is 29% [6], [7], and the practical limit following the method of Swanson [6].”