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1 * Corresponding author: indrani.banerjee@cug.ac.in

Umesh Fegade

Bhusawal Arts Science and P. O. Nahata Commerce College, Bhusawal, Maharashtra, India

Email: umeshfegade@gmail.com

Abstract

The world is facing the several problems but the energy crisis is the major concern for scientist community and intellectual. Energy production using conventional resources produces high amount of greenhouse gases which increases the temperature of earth as a results the polar ice melts. From last few decades, the renewable energy sources are used for to reduce the use of conventional resource. The sunlight is the biggest available source of renewable and scientist is keep try to produce electricity with high efficiency. The tandem solar cell is the third generation of solar cell. The tandem solar cell has two, three, and four junction and efficiency reached upto 32.8%, 44.4%, and 46.0%, respectively. In the present paper, we review the paper of tandem solar including its subtypes organic tandem solar, inorganic tandem solar, and hybrid tandem solar cell.

Keywords:Conventional resources, greenhouse gases, renewable energy, tandem solar cell