A light-trapping structure based on Bi2O3 nano-islands with highly crystallized sputtered silicon for thin-film solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 101, 2011, Pages A20-A27

  Hu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Li, Dejie ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORBING LAYERS; COST STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT THICKNESS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; ILLUMINATION SPECTRUM; INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; LATERAL SIZES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG WAVELENGTH; NANO-ISLANDS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; SILICON FILMS; STRUCTURE-BASED; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 78651349044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000A20     Document Type: Article

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