Optimal light trapping in ultra-thin photonic crystal crystalline silicon solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7725, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Basu Mallick, Shrestha ^a,b   Agrawal, Mukul ^c   Peumans, Peter ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystalline Silicon; Photonic Crystals; Quasiguided Modes; Solar Cells; Thin Films; Wave Optics; Yablonovitch Limit

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; BROAD SPECTRAL; CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; COUPLING STRENGTHS; CRYSTALLINE SILICON; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; DOUBLE LAYERS; INCIDENT RADIATION; INDIRECT BAND GAP; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; QUALITY MATERIALS; SILICON LAYER; SOLAR LIGHT; STRUCTURED FILMS; ULTRA-THIN; WAVE OPTICS;

COST REDUCTION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953764862     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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