Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5385-5396

  Agrawal, Mukul ^a   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; THIN FILMS;

BROADBAND OPTICAL ABSORPTION; THIN-FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 42149155491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005385     Document Type: Article

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