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Stefan Fischer Receives Best Student Presentation Award from 39th IEEE PV Specialists Conference

Upconversion allows silicon solar cells to make use of infrared light

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

For his presentation on increasing the efficiency of silicon solar cells through upconversion, Stefan Fischer, Ph.D. student at Fraunhofer ISE, received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in the category “Fundamentals and New Concepts.” Every semiconductor material has an inherent upper efficiency limit for the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy. By employing so-called upconverters, these limits can be overcome and highe...

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