Rugate filter for light-trapping in solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9332-9343

  Fahr, Stephan ^a   Ulbrich, Carolin ^b   Kirchartz, Thomas ^c   Rau, Uwe ^c   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a Institut fur Optik und Quantenelektronik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COATINGS; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

AVERAGE PATH LENGTH; FILTER DESIGNS; LONG WAVELENGTH; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; REFLECTION LOSS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE FILTER;

SOLAR CELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 46149103421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009332     Document Type: Article

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