Camera for recording light backscattered from textured photovoltaic samples

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Parretta, Antonio ^a  

^a ENEA CR Portici   (Italy)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Photovoltaic devices; Recording; Textured silicon

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON;

OPTICAL DIFFUSING EFFECTS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0141868980     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/5/5/380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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