High-efficiency photonic crystal solar cell architecture

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8871-8878

  Chutinan, Alongkarn ^a   Kherani, Nazir P ^a   Zukotynski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORBING LAYERS; CELL ARCHITECTURES; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; HIGH ENERGY CONVERSIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NEAR INFRARED;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHOTON; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 66449100624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008871     Document Type: Article

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