High fidelity transfer of nanometric random textures by UV embossing for thin film solar cells applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 881-886

  Escarré, Jordi ^a   Söderström, Karin ^a   Battaglia, Corsin ^a   Haug, Franz Josef ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Plastic substrates; Solar cells; Thin film; UV imprinting

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH QUALITY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANO-IMPRINTING; NANOMETRICS; OPTICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; POLYETHYLENE SHEET; RANDOM TEXTURES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; UV EMBOSSING; UV IMPRINTING;

SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78751646531     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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