1 June 2022 Hot-carrier multijunction solar cells: sensitivity and resilience to nonidealities
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Abstract

The resilience against non-idealities of hot-carrier multijunction solar cells (HCMJSCs) is assessed and compared with two references, namely a multijunction solar cell (MJSC) and a hot carrier solar cell (HCSC). We investigate the impact on the efficiency of three deviations from the ideal case: nonoptimal design, internal limitations, and nonstandard operation conditions. We show that the HCMJSC maintains a high efficiency even when materials with nonoptimal bandgaps are considered, broadening the range of candidate materials for its implementation. We also show that the requirement for hot carriers’ thermalization is much less stringent than with the standard HCSC architecture, allowing to surpass the best MJSC efficiency with currently achievable thermalization coefficients. Finally, we estimate the influence of nonstandard illumination by varying the AM spectrum and estimate numerically the yearly averaged efficiency of devices installed in two different locations. Preliminary results on temperature dependence are also presented.

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Maxime Giteau, Samy Almosni, Jean-François Guillemoles, and Daniel Suchet "Hot-carrier multijunction solar cells: sensitivity and resilience to nonidealities," Journal of Photonics for Energy 12(3), 032208 (1 June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.12.032208
Received: 1 March 2022; Accepted: 26 April 2022; Published: 1 June 2022
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KEYWORDS
Multijunction solar cells

Absorption

Sun

Solar cells

Solar radiation models

Energy efficiency

Solar energy

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