Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: (a) Theoretical conversion efficiencies based on Shockley and Queisser limit and (b) two junction (mechanical stack) solar cells under AM 1.5 solar spectrum

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Illustration of the proposed Si/Ge tandem solar cell

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Illustration of the modeled silicon solar cells. On the left is the HIT and on the right is the bifacial solar cell architecture.

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Illustration of the modeled germanium solar cell

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Extinction coefficient of the materials used in the tandem device

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Refractive index of the materials used in the tandem device

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Optical loss due to various layers in the top cell before the light gets absorbed by the silicon layer

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Light spectrum incident on the tandem device, absorbed by silicon cell and light incident on germanium cell

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Optical loss due to various layers in the bottom cell before the light gets absorbed by the germanium layer

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Illustration of the light intensity available at silicon and germanium surfaces and the various optical losses in the device

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Simulated and theoretical maximum current-voltage curves for silicon solar cells

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: External quantum efficiency of simulated silicon and germanium solar cells

Date of download: 10/18/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optical and Electronic Simulation of Silicon/Germanium Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):011009-011009-7. doi:10.1115/1.4024744 Figure Legend: Simulated and theoretical maximum current-voltage curves for germanium solar cells