[11a-N204-1~10] 13.9 Compound solar cells

[11a-N204-9] Maximum power output of two-terminal and four-terminal solar cell-thermoelectric hybrid devices

〇(D)Jun Sakuma¹, Kenji Kamide², Toshimitsu Mochizuki², Hidetaka Takato², Hidefumi Akiyama^1,3 (1.ISSP Univ. of Tokyo, 2.AIST, 3.OPERANDO-OIL)

Keywords:solar cell, thermoelectric effect, heat recovery

To improve the efficiency of solar cells (PV), PVTE, which is a combination of PV and thermoelectric devices, has been proposed. Our proposed heat recovery solar cell (HERC) is another thermoelectric application in PV, and its theory leads to a two-terminal series PVTE.
The HERC theory is expected to be useful for the prospect of four-terminal devices and two-terminal parallel devices.