Solar Cells as Light Emitters: The Key to Record Efficiencies and Approaching the Shockley-Queisser Limits

Owen D. Miller; Eli Yablonovitch; Eli Yablonovitch

doi:10.1364/LS.2013.LM3I.6

Frontiers in Optics 2013
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
paper LM3I.6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LS.2013.LM3I.6

Solar Cells as Light Emitters: The Key to Record Efficiencies and Approaching the Shockley-Queisser Limits

Owen D. Miller and Eli Yablonovitch

Laser Science 2013

Orlando, Florida United States
6–10 October 2013
ISBN: 978-1-55752-987-9

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Optics and Alternative Energy (LM3I)

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O. D. Miller and E. Yablonovitch, "Solar Cells as Light Emitters: The Key to Record Efficiencies and Approaching the Shockley-Queisser Limits," in Frontiers in Optics 2013, P. Delyett, Jr. and D. Gauthier, eds., OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper LM3I.6.

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Abstract

A solar cell, by definition absorbing, must also be emissive. Counter-intuitively, then, emission should be maximized. This was the viewpoint driving the recent single-junction efficiency record, and underpins the approach to more general Shockley-Queisser limits.

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