the solar cell is intended to be used as part of lattice-matched multi-junction solar cells. It achieved a short-circuit current density of 15.2 mA/cm 2 and external quantum efficiency of 0.79.

The simulations shows over 50% efficiency under 100 suns of concentration. As a key proof of concept, an equivalent 3-junction solar cell lattice-matched to InP was fabricated and tested. The ...

It was grown inverted, similar to the NREL-developed inverted metamorphic multi ... junction. Both the open-circuit voltage and the short-circuit current were increased. Silicon solar cells ...

have proposed a novel triple-junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 percent conversion efficiency barrier, which is the current goal in multi-junction photovoltaic development.

Multi-junction solar cells are both the most efficient type of solar cell on the market today and the most expensive type of solar cell to produce. In a proof-of-concept paper, researchers from ...

Due to their higher efficiency potential, tandem solar cells have a promising future. After intensive research, scientists at Fraunhofer ISE in cooperation with partners have achieved a new efficiency ...

Materials scientists have found a way to create multi-junction solar cells that absorb different parts of the solar spectrum, but fabricated from just a single compound. By growing or annealing zinc ...

A multi-junction solar cell developed by NREL. It glows red due to gallium indium phosphide in the top layer. Credit: NREL The physics involved is complex, and the limit comes down to multiple ...

Using an innovative technique developed at Oxford, which layers multiple light-absorbing materials within a single solar cell, the researchers ... utilizing the multi-junction method, has now ...