Empirical procedure to correct concentrator cell efficiency measurement errors caused by unfiltered xenon flash solar simulators

In this paper, we present an empirical error correction procedure for efficiency measurements of series-connected, multijunction concentrator solar cells. The error arises from the use of unfiltered xenon flash solar simulators with excess infrared radiation (wavelengths > 900 nm) into lower-bandgap subcells, and always results in an artificial increase of the measured efficiency. The efficacy of the procedure is demonstrated by comparing unfiltered efficiency data against other data from a flash simulator in which the spectral irradiance was properly adjusted.