High-Efficiency, Monolithic, Multi-Bandgap, Tandem, Photovoltaic Energy Converters

Mark Wanlass (Inventor)

    Research output: Patent

    Abstract

    A monolithic, multi-bandgap, tandem solar photovoltaic converter has at least one, and preferably at least two, subcells grown lattice-matched on a substrate with a bandgap in medium to high energy portions of the solar spectrum and at least one subcell grown lattice-mismatched to the substrate with a bandgap in the low energy portion of the solar spectrum, for example, about 1 eV.
    Original languageAmerican English
    Patent number8,735,202
    Filing date27/05/14
    StatePublished - 2014

    Bibliographical note

    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, CO)

    NREL Publication Number

    • NREL/PT-5200-62977

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