Optimization of photonics for corrugated thin-film solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Deparis, Olivier ^a   Vigneron, Jean Pol ^a   Agustsson, Otto ^b   Decroupet, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b AGC Flat Glass Europe   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ACTIVE MATERIAL; ADIABATIC PROPAGATION; APPROXIMATED SOLUTIONS; CORRUGATED INTERFACES; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; GLOBAL ENERGY; LIGHT ENERGY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERIODIC STRATIFIED MEDIA; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; PLANAR STRUCTURE; PYRAMID ARRAYS; PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUBWAVELENGTH PERIOD; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH SCALE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON OPTICS; FLUORINE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM DEVICES; TIN; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70450273080     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3253755     Document Type: Article

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