Single-material TiO2 double-layer antireflection coatings

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-390

  Richards, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antireflection coating; DLAR; Double layer; Spectroscopic ellipsometry; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; LIGHT REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

VARIABLE ANGLE SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY (VASE);

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 0042512270     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(02)00473-7     Document Type: Article

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