Potential Wide-gap Materials as a Top Cell for Multi-junction c-Si Based Solar Cells: A Short Review |
Pham, Duy Phong
(College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Sunhwa (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Kim, Sehyeon (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Oh, Donghyun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Khokhar, Muhammad Quddamah (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Kim, Sangho (Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Natural Science Campus) Park, Jinjoo (Major of Energy and Applied Chemistry, Division of Energy & Optical Technology Convergence, Cheongju University) Kim, Youngkuk (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Cho, Eun-Chel (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Cho, Young-Hyun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) Yi, Junsin (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) |
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