Trapping light with micro lenses in thin film organic photovoltaic cells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21608-21615

  Tvingstedt, Kristofer ^a   Dal Zilio, Simone ^b   Inganäs, Olle ^a   Tormen, Massimo ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MICROLENSES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION RATES; ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSIONS; HIGHLY REFLECTING MIRRORS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICRO LENS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REFLECTED PHOTONS; SELF-ALIGNED;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 58149234961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021608     Document Type: Article

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