Thin film silicon solar cell design based on photonic crystal and diffractive grating structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15238-15248

  Mutitu, James G ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Creazzo, Timothy ^a   Barnett, Allen ^a   Honsberg, Christiana ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; GRATING STRUCTURES; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LAYERS; SCATTERING MATRICES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; POWER SUPPLY; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 52049123361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015238     Document Type: Article

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