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Record W4410779908 · doi:10.1002/pip.3914

Subcell‐Resolved EQE Method Using Reverse Voltage Biasing for Multijunction Photovoltaics With Overlapping Subcell Absorptance

2025· article· en· W4410779908 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueProgress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
Topicsolar cell performance optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacsGovernment of Canada
KeywordsPhotovoltaicsAbsorptanceOptoelectronicsMaterials scienceReverse biasBiasingVoltagePhotovoltaic systemOpticsElectrical engineeringPhysics

Abstract

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ABSTRACT External quantum efficiency (EQE) measurements of individual subcells in multijunction photovoltaic devices are essential to evaluate current matching and to iterate the design process. The standard light biasing technique used to measure subcell EQE falls short when multiple subcells absorb within the same spectral region. In this work, we demonstrate a three‐step reverse voltage biasing EQE method, which measures any number of subcells with overlapping absorptance: (1) A light bias is applied to generate current mismatch between the subcells. (2) Current–voltage ( I–V ) characteristics are measured into reverse bias, where the limiting subcell enters reverse‐bias breakdown and the device current climbs to a plateau at the photocurrent of the next limiting subcell, producing a staircase I–V curve. (3) Each subcell EQE curve is measured using a voltage bias within its current plateau. We demonstrate this approach for a two‐junction GaAs‐based photonic power converter, comparing to the standard light biasing method and revealing better than 0.8% absolute agreement when the top junction is preferentially biased in the reverse voltage biasing method. We demonstrate the viability of the method by measuring the EQE of all subcells in a six‐junction GaAs‐based photonic power converter.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.803
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.357
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it