Full day modelling of V-shaped organic solar cell

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1257-1263

  Andersson, B Viktor ^a   Wuerfel, Uli ^b,c   Inganäs, Olle ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Organic solar cell; Tandem cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; INCIDENT ANGLES; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PLANAR CELLS; TANDEM CELL; TANDEM CELLS; TILTING ANGLE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SOLAR CELLS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SOLAR POWER; SPECTRUM;

EID: 79956136857     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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