Thin-film silicon solar cells with efficient periodic light trapping texture

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Haase, Christian ^a   Stiebig, Helmut ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; THIN FILMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; RANDOMLY ROUGH TEXTURE; ROUGH TEXTURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 34547850807     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2768882     Document Type: Article

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