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Analysis of institutional authors

Garcia-Tabares, ECorresponding AuthorGarcia, ICorresponding AuthorRey-Stolle, ICorresponding Author

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July 18, 2022
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High-low refractive index stacks as antireflection coatings on triple-junction solar cells

Publicated to: Progress In Photovoltaics. 31 (1): 62-70 - 2023-01-01 31(1), DOI: 10.1002/pip.3608

Authors:

Hou, Guo Jiao; Garcia-Tabares, Elisa; Garcia, Ivan; Rey-Stolle, Ignacio
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Affiliations

Charles III Univ Madrid, Phys Dept, Leganes, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, ETSI Telecommun, Solar Energy Inst, Avda Complutense 30, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

Antireflection coatings (ARCs) are crucial components of high-efficiency solar cells. A new ARC design philosophy, dubbed high-low refractive index stacks, has demonstrated good potential to minimize reflection losses for triple-junction and quadruple-junction solar cells in simulations. We have implemented such novel ARCs on GaInP/InGaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells and compared the experimental performances-external quantum efficiency and reflectivity-with that of identical devices equipping the classic double-layer ARC. For typical materials such as MgF2/ZnS with ambient glass, the results show that the new design improves the short circuit current by 1.8% at normal incidence and 1.6% and 1% for angles of incidence of 30 degrees and 50 degrees, respectively.
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Keywords

Affordable and clean energyAntireflection coatingBroad-bandDesignHigh-low refractive index stacksMultijunction solar cellNanostructures

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Progress In Photovoltaics due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 23/179, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Physics, Applied.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-21:

  • Open Alex: 7
  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 6
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 15.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 16 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 7 - Affordable and clean energy, with a probability of 83% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Hou, GJ) and Last Author (REY-STOLLE PRADO, IGNACIO).

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been Hou, GJ, GARCIA VARA, IVAN, GARCIA MARTIN, ISIDRO and REY-STOLLE PRADO, IGNACIO.

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Awards linked to the item

Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion/Agencia Estatal de Investigaci~on; China Scholarship Council, Grant/Award Number: 201804910474; Spanish MCIN/AEI and European Union "NextGenerataionEU"/PRTR, Grant/Award Number: EQC2021-006851-P; Spanish MCIN/AEI and FEDER "Una manera de hacer Europa", Grant/Award Number: EQC2019-005701-P; Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion/Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, Grant/Award Number: RTI2018-094291-B-I00
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