Design of plasmonic back structures for efficiency enhancement of thin-film amorphous Si solar cells

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 3725-3727

  Bai, Wenli ^a,b,c,d   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^c   Bartoli, Filbert ^c   Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Cai, Likang ^a,b   Huang, Yidong ^d   Song, Guofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Lehigh University   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CELL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; METAL MATERIALS; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 71849102739     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003725     Document Type: Article

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