Imperial College London
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ProfessorStefanMaier

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Lee-Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics
 
 
 
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Huxley 903Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Mellor:2017:10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366800,
author = {Mellor, A and Hylton, NP and Wellens, C and Thomas, T and Al-Saleh, Y and Giannini, V and Braun, A and Hauser, H and Maier, SA and Ekins-Daukes, NJ},
doi = {10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366800},
pages = {1--4},
title = {Improving the radiation hardness of space solar cells via nanophotonic light trapping},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366800},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - We show that the radiation-hardness of space solar cells can be significantly improved by employing nanophotonic light trapping. Two light-trapping structures are investigated in this work. In the first, an array of Al nanoparticles is embedded within the anti-reflection coating of a GaInP/InGaAs/Ge solar cell. A combined experimental and simulation study shows that this structure is unlikely to lead to an improvement in radiation hardness. In the second, a diffractive structure is positioned between the middle cell and the bottom cell. Computational results, obtained using an experimentally validated electro-optical simulation tool, show that a properly designed light-trapping structure in this position can lead to a relative 10% improvement in the middle-cell photocurrent at end-of-life.
AU  - Mellor,A
AU  - Hylton,NP
AU  - Wellens,C
AU  - Thomas,T
AU  - Al-Saleh,Y
AU  - Giannini,V
AU  - Braun,A
AU  - Hauser,H
AU  - Maier,SA
AU  - Ekins-Daukes,NJ
DO  - 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366800
EP  - 4
PY  - 2017///
SP  - 1
TI  - Improving the radiation hardness of space solar cells via nanophotonic light trapping
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366800
ER  -
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