Numerical analysis and demonstration of submicron antireflective textures for crystalline silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1191-1194

  Sai, Hitoshi ^a   Fujii, Homare ^a   Kanamori, Yoshiaki ^b   Arafune, Koji ^a   Ohshita, Yoshio ^a   Yugami, Hiroo ^b   Yamaguchi, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFLECTION; TEXTURES;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SPECTRAL REFLECTIVITY; SUBMICRON ANTIREFLECTIVE TEXTURES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749093401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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