• DocumentCode
    3385203
  • Title

    Quantum well solar cells - pre-pilot production and on-sun testing results

  • Author

    Tibbits, T.N.D. ; Barnham, K.W.J. ; Roberts, J.S. ; Ballard, I.M. ; Pate, M. ; Geen, M.

  • Author_Institution
    QuantaSol Ltd., Parkshot House, 5 Kew Road, Richmond, TW9 2PR, UK
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    11-16 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    QuantaSol Ltd is commercialising the quantum well solar cell for terrestrial concentrator applications. Here, encouraging results of the first pre-pilot production of single junction GaAs-based cells are shown, and an update given on the status of the company and its products.
  • Keywords
    Dark current; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Educational institutions; Photoconductivity; Photovoltaic cells; Production; Quantum well devices; Radiative recombination; Testing; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2008. PVSC '08. 33rd IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0160-8371
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1640-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0160-8371
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922899
  • Filename
    4922899