Modulated surface textures for enhanced light trapping in thin-film silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Isabella, Olindo ^a   Krč, Janez ^b   Zeman, Miro ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; INTERFACE MORPHOLOGIES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MODULATED SURFACES; SCATTERING LEVELS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SURFACE MODULATIONS; SURFACE REPRESENTATION; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

MORPHOLOGY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77956575764     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3488023     Document Type: Article

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