Optimal design of periodic surface texture for thin-film a-Si:H solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-167

  Čampa, Andrej ^a   Isabella, Olindo ^b   Van Erven, Rob ^c   Peeters, Patrick ^c   Borg, Herman ^c   Krč, Janez ^a   Topič, Marko ^a   Zeman, Miro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c OM and T BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Gratings; Optics; Periodic texture; Simulations; Thin film

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; ABSORBER LAYERS; ABSORPTION LOSS; ANTI-REFLECTION EFFECTS; BACK CONTACT; DISCRETIZATIONS; DUTY CYCLES; FLAT INTERFACE; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); OPTICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PATH; OPTICAL SIMULATORS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PERIODIC SURFACES; PERIODIC TEXTURE; THIN ABSORBERS; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE EQUATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77951645152     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.940     Document Type: Article

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