Assessing high-temperature photovoltaic performance for solar hybrid power plants

J Zeitouny, N Lalau, JM Gordon, EA Katz… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hybrid solar photovoltaic/thermal power systems offer the possibility of dispatchable, low-
cost, efficient and reliable solar electricity production. A key design strategy capable of fully …

InGaP/Ge and GaAs/Ge double-junction solar cells for thermal-CPV hybrid energy systems

B Bouzazi, A Jaouad, A Turala, R Arès… - AIP Conference …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the feasibility approach to deploy two types of dual junction GaInP/Ge and
GaAs/Ge solar cells in a hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal concentrator system, where they …

Advanced strategies for ultra-high PV efficiency

J Zeitouny - 2018 - theses.hal.science
The maximum efficiency limit attainable with a single-junction PV cell is~ 33% according to
the detailed balance formalism (also known as Shockley-Queisser model), which remains …