Enhanced light trapping in thin-film solar cells by a directionally selective filter

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 102, 2010, Pages A133-A138

  Ulbrich, Carolin ^a   Peters, Marius ^b   Bläsi, Benedikt ^b   Kirchartz, Thomas ^a   Gerber, Andreas ^a   Rau, Uwe ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; SOLAR CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

CONTACT LAYERS; DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG-WAVELENGTH PHOTONS; MULTILAYER FILTERS; OBLIQUE ANGLES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PATH LENGTH; SELECTIVE FILTERS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77953839380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.00A133     Document Type: Article

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