Photoabsorption enhancement in thin-silicon photovoltaics using opaline photonic crystal back-reflectors

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 001801-001805

  O'Brien, P G ^a   Chutinan, A ^a   Kherani, N P ^a   Ozin, G A ^a   Zukotynski, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; ABSORBING MEDIUM; BACK CONTACT; BACK REFLECTORS; BAND GAPS; FDTD CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; INCIDENT LIGHT; INVERTED OPALS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RESONANT STATE; SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; SPECTRAL REGION; THIN FILM SILICON; THIN SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; ZNO;

ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION; SILICON; ZINC OXIDE;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 77951579887     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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