Current-matched III–V/Si epitaxial tandem solar cells with 25.0% efficiency

S Fan, JY Zhengshan, RD Hool, P Dhingra… - Cell reports physical …, 2020 - cell.com
III–V/Si epitaxial tandems with a 1.7-eV GaAsP top cell promise stable power conversion
efficiencies above the fundamental limit of Si single-junction cells. However, III–V/Si epitaxial …

Solar cells

SM Goodnick, C Honsberg - Springer Handbook of Semiconductor …, 2022 - Springer
In this review chapter, we present the current state of the art of photovoltaic device
technology. We begin with an overview of the fundamentals of solar cell device operation …

A short review on long persistent luminescence materials and their application prospects in emerging photovoltaic devices

T Sharma, G Arora, CY Ng, HK Jun - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Considering global climate change concerns, issues related to the energy crisis and
technologies reliant on non-fossil renewable energy sources are in high demand. Solar …

23.4% monolithic epitaxial GaAsP/Si tandem solar cells and quantification of losses from threading dislocations

DL Lepkowski, TJ Grassman, JT Boyer… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract A 2-terminal, dual-junction, epitaxially integrated, GaAsP/Si tandem solar cell with
an 3rd party certified efficiency of 23.4% was fabricated via MOCVD growth on an ex-situ …

GaAsP/SiGe tandem solar cells on porous Si substrates

P Caño, M Hinojosa, I García, R Beanland, DF Marrón… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
III-V compound semiconductors and SiGe alloys can be combined to develop multijunction
solar cells on Silicon substrates with optimum bandgap combinations. Current …

Reduced dislocation introduction in III–V/Si heterostructures with glide-enhancing compressively strained superlattices

JT Boyer, AN Blumer, ZH Blumer… - Crystal Growth & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The novel use of a GaAs y P1–y/GaP compressively strained superlattice (CSS) to provide
enhanced control over misfit dislocation (MD) evolution and threading dislocation density …

A route to obtaining low-defect III–V epilayers on Si (100) utilizing MOCVD

M Nandy, A Paszuk, M Feifel, C Koppka… - Crystal Growth & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Low-defect III–V multilayer structures grown on Si (100) open opportunities for a wide range
of cost-effective high-performance photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. For that,(Al) GaP …

Growth of GaP layers on Si substrates in a standard MOVPE reactor for multijunction solar cells

P Cano, CM Ruiz, A Navarro, B Galiana, I García… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gallium phosphide (GaP) is an ideal candidate to implement a III-V nucleation layer on a
silicon substrate. The optimization of this nucleation has been pursued for decades, since it …

Loss analysis and design strategies enabling> 23% GaAsP/Si tandem solar cells

DL Lepkowski, JT Boyer, C Yi… - 2020 47th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detailed loss analysis of our previously reported 21.8%(unverified) monolithic GaAsP/Si
tandem cells has identified and quantified three main mechanisms limiting cell performance …

Designing an Epitaxially-Integrated DBR for Dislocation Mitigation in Monolithic GaAsP/Si Tandem Solar Cells

DL Lepkowski, T Kasher, TJ Grassman… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work explores epitaxially integrated distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) as a strategy to
mitigate the impact of threading dislocations on the performance of monolithic GaAs0. 75P0 …