Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators: Preprint

McConnell, R; Symko-Davies, M

doi:10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279560

Title: Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators: Preprint

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Multijunction solar cells provide high-performance technology pathways leading to potentially low-cost electricity generated from concentrated sunlight. The National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has funded different III-V multijunction solar cell technologies and various solar concentration approaches. Within this group of projects, III-V solar cell efficiencies of 41% are close at hand and will likely be reported in these conference proceedings. Companies with well-developed solar concentrator structures foresee installed system costs of $3/watt--half of today's costs--within the next 2 to 5 years as these high-efficiency photovoltaic technologies are incorporated into their concentrator photovoltaic systems. These technology improvements are timely as new large-scale multi-megawatt markets, appropriate for high performance PV concentrators, open around the world.

Authors:: McConnell, R; Symko-Davies, M

Publication Date:: Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 891464

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-520-39791
TRN: US200621%%927

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-99-GO10337

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-4), 7-12 May 2006, Waikoloa, Hawaii

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATORS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONVERSION; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; PERFORMANCE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; PV; MULTIJUNCTION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCENTRATOR; LOW-COST ELECTRICITY; LARGE-SCALE; MULTI-MEGAWATT; Solar Energy - Photovoltaics

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                    McConnell, R, and Symko-Davies, M. Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators: Preprint.  United States: N. p., 2006. 
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                    McConnell, R, & Symko-Davies, M. Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators: Preprint.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279560

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                    McConnell, R, and Symko-Davies, M. 2006.  
        "Multijunction Photovoltaic Technologies for High-Performance Concentrators: Preprint".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279560.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/891464.

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