Photonic band-engineering absorption enhancement of amorphous silicon for solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7411, Issue , 2009, Pages

  El Daif, Ounsi ^a,b   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a   Gomard, Guillaume ^a   Park, Yeonsang ^b   Kaminski, Anne ^b   Fave, Alain ^b   Lemiti, Mustapha ^b   Letartre, Xavier ^a   Viktorovitch, Pierre ^a   Ahn, Sungmo ^c   Jeon, Heonsu ^c   Seassal, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Photonic crystals; Slow light; Solar cells; Thin films

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CELL ENGINEERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EFFICIENCY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SLOW LIGHT; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; PHOTONIC BANDS; SHOW THROUGH; SPECTRAL RANGE; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 70349924974     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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