Demonstration of enhanced absorption in thin film Si solar cells with textured photonic crystal back reflector

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Zeng, L ^a   Bermel, P ^b   Yi, Y ^a   Alamariu, B A ^a   Broderick, K A ^a   Liu, J ^a   Hong, C ^a   Duan, X ^a   Joannopoulos, J ^b   Kimerling, L C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

ACTIVE LAYERS; BACK REFLECTORS; ENHANCED ABSORPTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATIONS; HIGH REFLECTIVITIES; MONOCRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (; SCATTERING MATRIXES; SI SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 57349142378     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3039787     Document Type: Article

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