Simulation of tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7725, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jandl, Christine ^a   Dewald, Wilma ^b   Paetzold, Ulrich W ^c   Gordijn, Aad ^c   Pflaum, Christoph ^a   Stiebig, Helmut ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE ENGINEERING AND THIN FILMS IST   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d Malibu GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM scan; FDTD simulation; thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; AFM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT LIGHT; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NUMBER OF GRIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL PATH; OPTIMAL TEXTURE; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; SCAN DATA; SIMULATE-3; SIMULATION PROGRAM; SIMULATION TOOL; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE FILMS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LEAD OXIDE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEXTURES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77953744209     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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