Engineering the randomness for enhanced absorption in solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Fahr, Stephan ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCATTERING;

ABSORBED PHOTONS; SURFACE PROFILES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 43049099980     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2919094     Document Type: Article

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