Design of highly efficient light-trapping structures for thin-film crystalline silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1926-1933

  Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Michel, Jurgen ^a   Zeng, Lirong ^a   Liu, Jifeng ^a   Hong, Ching Yin ^a   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a   Duan, Xiaoman ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antireflection (AR) coating; Diffraction grating; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR); Light trapping structure; Thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; THIN FILMS;

ANTIREFLECTION (AR) COATING; BACK REFLECTOR; LIGHT-TRAPPING STRUCTURE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELL;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 34547902513     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.900976     Document Type: Article

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