Boosting the Efficiency of III-V/Si Tandem Solar Cells

Stephanie Essig; Christophe Allebe; John F. Geisz; Myles A. Steiner; Bertrand Paviet-Salomon; Antoine Descoeudres; Adele Tamboli; Loris Barraud; Scott Ward; Nicolas Badel; Vincenzo Lasalvia; Jacques Levrat; Matthieu Despeisse; Christophe Ballif; Paul Stradins; David L. Young

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749987

Boosting the Efficiency of III-V/Si Tandem Solar Cells

Stephanie Essig, Christophe Allebe, John F. Geisz, Myles A. Steiner, Bertrand Paviet-Salomon, Antoine Descoeudres, Adele Tamboli, Loris Barraud, Scott Ward, Nicolas Badel, Vincenzo Lasalvia, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Christophe Ballif, Paul Stradins, David L. Young

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Abstract

We have developed Si-based tandem solar cells with a certified 1-sun efficiency of 29.8% (AM1.5g). The four-terminal tandem devices consist of 1.8 eV rear-heterojunction GaInP top cells and silicon heterojunction bottom cells. The two subcells were fabricated independently in two different labs and merged using an optically transparent, electrically insulating epoxy. Work is ongoing to further improve the performance of each subcell and to push the tandem cell efficiency to > 30%.

Original language	American English
Pages	2040-2042
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749987 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749987
State	Published - 18 Nov 2016
Event	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016 - Portland, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

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Conference	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	5/06/16 → 10/06/16

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NREL/CP-5J00-67933

Keywords

III-V semiconductor materials
multi-junction solar cell
silicon solar cells

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Essig, S., Allebe, C., Geisz, J. F., Steiner, M. A., Paviet-Salomon, B., Descoeudres, A., Tamboli, A., Barraud, L., Ward, S., Badel, N., Lasalvia, V., Levrat, J., Despeisse, M., Ballif, C., Stradins, P., & Young, D. L. (2016). Boosting the Efficiency of III-V/Si Tandem Solar Cells. 2040-2042. Paper presented at 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016, Portland, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749987, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749987

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