Toward the lambertian limit of light trapping in thin nanostructured silicon solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4692-4696

  Han, Sang Eon ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

group theory; Lambertian limit; Light trapping; optical absorption; symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

GROUP THEORY; LAMBERTIAN; LIGHT TRAPPING; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ALGEBRA;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 78449297966     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1029804     Document Type: Article

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