Modeling light trapping and electronic transport of waffle-shaped crystalline thin-film Si solar cells

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-213

  Brendel, R ^a   Scholten, D ^b  

^a BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PASSIVATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILM DEVICES;

CARRIER TRANSPORT; LAMBERTIAN LIGHT TRAPPING; LIGHT TRAPPING; MONTE CARLO RAY TRACING; PERFORATED SILICON PROCESS; PHOTOGENERATION; WAFFLE GEOMETRY;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0032593262     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003390050991     Document Type: Article

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