Design of light-trapping microscale-textured surfaces for efficient organic solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5168-5178

  Nalwa, Kanwar S ^a   Chaudhary, Sumit ^a,b  

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

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES;

ACTIVE LAYER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICRO-SCALES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SIMULATION RESULT; TEXTURED SURFACE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 77749315095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005168     Document Type: Article

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