Efficient light management scheme for thin film silicon solar cells via transparent random nanostructures fabricated by nanoimprinting

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Battaglia, Corsin ^a   Söderström, Karin ^a   Escarŕ, Jordi ^a   Haug, Franz Josef ^a   Domiń, Didier ^a   Cuony, Peter ^a   Boccard, Mathieu ^a   Bugnon, Gŕgory ^a   Denizot, Ćline ^a   Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Feltrin, Andrea ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HYDROGENATED MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; INTERFACE MORPHOLOGIES; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; NANO-IMPRINTING; NANOTEXTURED; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SUPERSTRATES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; ZNO;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON;

EID: 77956251482     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3432739     Document Type: Article

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