Energy needs have increased with global advancements and industrial revolutions.
Electrical energy utilization shares a huge amount of energy with residential and industrial …

Currently, Kenya depends mainly on oil, geothermal energy and hydro resources for
electricity production, however all three have associated issues. Oil-based electricity …

A six-volt vertically-stacked, high current GaAs photovoltaic power converter (PPC) has been
designed and fabricated to produce output power over 1 W under monochromatic …

The high-efficiency conversion of photonic power into electrical power is of broad-range
applicability to many industries due to its electrical isolation from the surrounding …

We designed and optimized ultra-thin single junction InAlGaAs photonic power converters
(PPC) with integrated back reflectors (BR) for operation at the telecommunications …

Abstract Four-junction AlGaAs/GaAs laser power converters (LPCs) with n+-GaAs/p+-Al 0.37
Ga 0.63 As heterostructure tunnel junctions (TJs) have been designed and grown by metal …

This paper proposes a new optimization approach for the metallization design of solar cells
and modules. While previous works have only optimized a maximum of two parameters at a …

A parameterized 3D distributed circuit model was developed to calculate the performance of
III-V solar cells and photonic power converters (PPC) with a variable number of epitaxial …

Currently, an important concern in CPV is inhomogeneity of the light distribution on the cell
introduced by the applied optical systems, which may affect system performance. In BICPV …

We study efficiency loss mechanisms and the potential for improvement of a record-setting
monochromatic photovoltaic device, which has demonstrated efficiency of 70% at 830 nm …