Photonic crystal based back reflectors for light management and enhanced absorption in amorphous silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Curtin, Benjamin ^a   Biswas, Rana ^a,b   Dalal, Vikram ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; BACK REFLECTORS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; LONG RANGE; METALLIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; REFERENCE DEVICES; RIGOROUS SIMULATION; SOLAR PHOTONS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRIANGULAR LATTICE;

ABSORPTION; AMORPHOUS SILICON; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; REFLECTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 71949097960     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3269593     Document Type: Article

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