Absorption enhancement using photonic crystals for silicon thin film solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14312-14321

  Park, Yeonsang ^a,b   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a   Daif, Ounsi El ^a,b   Letartre, Xavier ^a   Viktorovitch, Pierre ^a   Fave, Alain ^b   Kaminski, Anne ^b   Lemiti, Mustapha ^b   Seassal, Christian ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SLOW LIGHT; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS; ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; FABRICATION ERRORS; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 68349146359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014312     Document Type: Article

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