In the United States, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 30% (4.65 EJ/yr) of the energy used in commercial buildings and nearly 50% (10.1 EJ/yr) of the energy used in residential buildings. Solar heating, cooling and ventilation technologies can be used to offset a portion of this energy.
(PDF 768 kb) Essig, S., Allebé, C., Remo, T. et al. Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions.
Furthermore, the maturity of the III–V solar cell technology also allows the investigation of Si-based triple-junction (3J) solar cells in which the short-wavelength light is converted by two instead of one subcell with Eg > 1.12 eV, leading to higher theoretical one-sun efficiencies over 49% (ref. 10).
The Solar Two project used this method of energy storage, allowing it to store 1.44 terajoules (400,000 kWh) in its 68 m 3 storage tank with an annual storage efficiency of about 99%. Off-grid PV systems have traditionally used rechargeable batteries to store excess electricity.
Indeed, the highest conversion efficiency of solar energy into electricity has been reached with III–V semiconductor multi-junction solar cells enabling cell efficiencies up to 38.8% (ref. 7) under one sun and up to 46% (refs 8, 9) under concentrated sunlight.
Each III–V top cell has aligned metal grids and antireflection coatings (ARCs) on the front and rear side, and is attached to a glass slide, which is stacked on the separately fabricated SHJ cell using a transparent adhesive. c, Photo of two III–V//Si tandem solar cells with 1.01 cm 2 designated illumination areas.
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