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Molecular-based concepts offer the potential of low materials and processing costs in photovoltaics (PV), which is especially interesting if high efficiencies can be obtained. To accomplish high efficiencies, a better utilization of the solar spectrum is of high importance. The concept of two-photon absorption in dye-sensitized solar cells and full spectrum aspects of luminescent flat plates concentrators are discussed in this paper. The two-photon dye cell can be compared to a tandem solar cell on the molecular level. The luminescent concentrator offers the potential to employ full spectrum utilization in combination with static concentration of both direct and diffuse light.
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From Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, Vol. 38, No. 8, 2004, pp. 1007–1012.
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van Roosmalen, J.A.M. Molecular-based concepts in PV towards full spectrum utilization. Semiconductors 38, 970–975 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1787121
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