The Influence of the 4n2 Light Trapping Factor on Ultimate Solar Cell Efficiency

Eli Yablonovitch; Owen Miller

doi:10.1364/OSE.2010.SWA1

Imaging and Applied Optics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010),
paper SWA1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OSE.2010.SWA1

The Influence of the 4n² Light Trapping Factor on Ultimate Solar Cell Efficiency

Eli Yablonovitch and Owen Miller

Optics for Solar Energy 2010

Tucson, Arizona United States
7–8 June 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55752-892-6

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Abstract

The standard Shockley-Queisser approach to ideal ultimate solar cell efficiency makes a number of idealistic assumptions. Under even slightly non-ideal conditions, the 4n² light trapping factor already has a major role controlling the ultimate efficiency.

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