Absorbing photonic crystals for silicon thin-film solar cells: Design, fabrication and experimental investigation

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Meng, Xianqin ^a,b,c   Gomard, Guillaume ^a,b,c   El Daif, Ounsi ^a,b,c   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a,b   Orobtchouk, Regis ^a,c   Kaminski, Anne ^a,c   Fave, Alain ^a,c   Lemiti, Mustapha ^a,c   Abramov, Alexei ^d   Roca I Cabarrocas, Pere ^d   Seassal, Christian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

Holographic lithography; Photonic crystals; Photovoltaics; Thin film devices and applications

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; FABRICATION; HOLOGRAPHY; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

2-D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; THIN-FILM DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79953813352     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.11.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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