Advantages of quantum well solar cells for TPV

• Main Authors: GRIFFIN, Paul Robert, Ballard, I., Barnham, K., Nelson, J., Zachariou, A., Button, C., Hopkinson, M., Pate, M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1997
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3234
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We discuss the advantages of quantum well solar cells (QWSCs) for thermophotovoltaic (TPV) applications and illustrate them with a test cell grown in GaInAsP/InGaAs lattice-matched to InP but not optimised for TPV. It is shown that a GaInAsP quaternary cell with a bandgap of 1.1 mu m with 60 InGaAs...