Angular and prism coupling refractive enhancement in dye solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Dominici, Lorenzo ^a,b   Vesce, Luigi ^a   Colonna, Daniele ^a   Michelotti, Francesco ^b   Brown, Thomas M ^a   Reale, Andrea ^a   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; COUPLING PRISMS; DYE SOLAR CELLS; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LASER ILLUMINATION; MESOPOROUS; NOVEL DESIGN; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PRISM COUPLINGS;

PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTOCURRENTS;

EID: 77949713581     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3328097     Document Type: Article

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