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Exceeding solar cell efficiency limit by thermal upconversion of low-energy photons

Svetlana V. Boriskina, Daniel Kraemer, Kenneth McEnaney, Lee A. Weinstein, and Gang Chen

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Abstract

We present a conceptual design of a new thermo-photovoltaic solar power conversion system with directionally- and spectrally-selective properties that enables the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit to be exceeded via thermal upconversion of below-bandgap photons.

© 2013 Optical Society of America

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