Light trapping designs for thin silicon solar cells based on photonic crystal and metallic diffractive grating structures

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000579-000583

  Mutitu, James G ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Barnett, Allen ^a   Honsberg, Christiana ^b   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METALLIC LAYERS; METALLIC MATERIAL; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; SCATTERING MATRIX METHOD; TWO-MATERIALS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

DESIGN;

EID: 77951567157     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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