Light trapping in organic solar cells

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 205, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2862-2874

  Niggemann, Michael ^a,b   Riede, Moritz ^c   Gombert, Andreas ^a   Leo, Karl ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ARCHITECTURES; CHARGE CARRIER EXTRACTIONS; COHERENT OPTICS; FUNCTIONAL LAYERS; INCIDENT ANGLES; INCIDENT LIGHTS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; KEY PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; NANOMETRES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; RECOMBINATION LOSSES; WIDE GAPS;

CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRAPPING; CIVIL AVIATION; LIGHT; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 57349191548     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200880461     Document Type: Article

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