Research Article
Numerical Simulation of Luminescent Downshifting in Top Cell of Monolithic Tandem Solar Cells
Table 2
Main material parameters used in the simulation.
| Material | GaInP | AlInP |
| Band Gap (eV) | 1.9 [15] | 2.4 [1] | Electron affinity (eV) | 4.1 [15] | 4.2 [1] | CB effective density of states (cm−3) | [15] | [16] | VB effective density of states (cm−3) | [15] | [16] | Electron thermal velocity (cm/s) | [15] | [16] | Hole thermal velocity (cm/s) | [15] | [16] | Electron mobility (cm²/Vs) | Varied [17, 18] | 100 [16] | Hole mobility (cm²/Vs) | 40 [17, 18] | 10 [16] | Lattice constant (A°) | 5.65 [15] | 5.65 [15] | Absorption coefficients (m−1) | Data from [19] | Data from [20] |
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