Light trapping effect of submicron surface textures in crystalline Si solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-423

  Sai, Hitoshi ^a,c   Kanamori, Yoshiaki ^b   Arafune, Koji ^a   Ohshita, Yoshio ^a   Yamaguchi, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antireflection; Crystalline Si; Diffraction; Light trapping; Submicron texture; Surface texturing

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANTIREFLECTION; LIGHT TRAPPING; SUBMICRON TEXTURE; SURFACE TEXTURING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 34547511772     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.754     Document Type: Article

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