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Ideal solar cell efficiencies

Ideal solar cell efficiencies
Ideal solar cell efficiencies
In a recent paper, Guillemoles et al. attempt to clarify and explain the often cited paper by Shockley and Queisser2 (SQ), which defines the limits to photovoltaic conversion by a single-junction solar cell. The SQ paper is not easy to read and is therefore easily misunderstood. As modern solar cells approach theoretical efficiency limits, the fundamentals become particularly important and the effort by Guillemoles et al. is therefore to be welcomed. However, in doing so, the authors have fallen into several pitfalls, and the aim of the present note is to clarify a number of misconceptions and correct some errors in that paper for specialists and non-specialists alike to help disentangle the complexities of the SQ paper.
1749-4885
163-164
Markvart, Tomas
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Markvart, Tomas
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Markvart, Tomas (2021) Ideal solar cell efficiencies. Nature Photonics, 15 (3), 163-164. (doi:10.1038/s41566-021-00772-4).

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In a recent paper, Guillemoles et al. attempt to clarify and explain the often cited paper by Shockley and Queisser2 (SQ), which defines the limits to photovoltaic conversion by a single-junction solar cell. The SQ paper is not easy to read and is therefore easily misunderstood. As modern solar cells approach theoretical efficiency limits, the fundamentals become particularly important and the effort by Guillemoles et al. is therefore to be welcomed. However, in doing so, the authors have fallen into several pitfalls, and the aim of the present note is to clarify a number of misconceptions and correct some errors in that paper for specialists and non-specialists alike to help disentangle the complexities of the SQ paper.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 24 February 2021
Published date: March 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: The Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics is supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport under grant number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000464.

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Local EPrints ID: 447709
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447709
ISSN: 1749-4885
PURE UUID: 2dd1b401-d108-47eb-b0e2-0c585a11dec4

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Date deposited: 18 Mar 2021 17:52
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:23

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