Тенденции и перспективы развития солнечной фотоэнергетики

Trends and Perspectives of Solar Photovoltaics

Zh.I. Alferov, V.M. Andreev, V.D. Rumyantsev
Ioffe Physico-Technical Inctitute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia


Abstract Considered are key directions of the development of photovoltaic method of the solar energy conversion, which open up wide prospects in the advancement of the semiconductor photovoltaics. Primary emphasis was received by photoconverters based upon A^IIIB^V heterostructures ensuring the highest efficiency of solar cells, for fabrication of which the high-performance technologies — MBE and MOCVD — are used. It is shown that the use of the intermediate sunlight concentration technique ensures reduction of the solar cell dimensions and, hence, their cost proportionally to the sunlight concentration ratio.

Физика и техника полупроводников, 2004, том 38, вып. 8