WO2010142626A3 - Method and means for a high power solar cell - Google Patents

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WO2010142626A3
WO2010142626A3 PCT/EP2010/057888 EP2010057888W WO2010142626A3 WO 2010142626 A3 WO2010142626 A3 WO 2010142626A3 EP 2010057888 W EP2010057888 W EP 2010057888W WO 2010142626 A3 WO2010142626 A3 WO 2010142626A3
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The invention relates to methods and means for improving the power generated, and thus efficiency of solar cells (20, 30). The best mode of the invention at present is considered to be a double or triple junction tandem solar cell (20, 30) that has one or two photon filters (100, 101) of the invention in between the solar cell layers (200, 201, 202, 203), respectively. The photon filter (100, 101, 102) is arranged to reflect photons with wavelength shorter than λx and arranged to be transparent to photons of wavelength longer than λx by focussing the said lower energy photons out of small area apertures (140, 141) on the other side of the photon filter (100, 101, 102) and arranging the other side of the photon filter (100, 101, 102) to reflect (150, 151) at least some of the said photons of wavelength longer than λx. By using the photon filters (100, 101, and 102) of the invention in between the solar cell layers (200, 201, 202, and 203), photons can be trapped between filters to solar cell layers at an energy at which the quantum efficiency (QE) of the solar cell layer is the best.
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JP2012514434A JP2012529760A (en) 2009-06-10 2010-06-07 Methods and means for high power solar cells
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