Design and fabrication of photonic crystal thin film photovoltaic cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7725, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gomard, Guillaume ^a,b   El Daif, Ounsi ^a,b   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a   Meng, Xianqin ^a,b   Kaminski, Anne ^b   Fave, Alain ^b   Lemiti, Mustapha ^b   Garcia Caurel, Enric ^c   Roca I Cabarrocas, Pere ^c   Seassal, Christian ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon; Photonic crystal; Photovoltaic solar cell; Thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FABRICATION; HYDROGENATION; PASSIVATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRICAL SIMULATION; ELECTRO-OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FABRICATION OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SURFACE PASSIVATION; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 77953733406     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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