Light scattering by textured transparent electrodes for thin-film silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1648-1657

  Krasnov, Alexey ^a  

^a KOCH INDUSTRIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

A Si solar cells; Light scattering; Textured TCOs; Transparent conductors

Indexed keywords

A-SI SOLAR CELLS; AFM; ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; ANGLE RESOLVED SCATTERING; FIT PARAMETERS; HIGH PRECISION; IN-LINE MONITORING; MEAN INCLINATION ANGLE; MULTILAYER STACKS; PEAK POSITION; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; SI SOLAR CELLS; SPATIAL FEATURES; SUPERSTRATES; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; THIN FILM SILICON; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

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EID: 77955419732     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.05.022     Document Type: Article

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