Light trapping enhancement in thin silicon solar cells using photonic crystals

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2208-2212

  Mutitu, James G ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Barnett, Allen ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STRUCTURE; GEOMETRIC OPTICAL DESIGNS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INCIDENT LIGHT WAVES; LIGHT TRAP; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NEW MATERIAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MATERIALS; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; STOP-BANDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESIGN; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 78650110986     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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