Intermediate reflectors for enhanced top cell performance in photovoltaic thin-film tandem cells

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8439-8446

  Bielawny, Andreas ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^b   Lederer, Falk ^b   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ENERGY GAP; LATTICE CONSTANTS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

3D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS; INTERMEDIATE REFLECTORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC THIN FILMS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; RIGOROUS DIFFRACTION THEORY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 66449088566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008439     Document Type: Article

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