Enhanced light trapping in realistic thin film solar cells using one-dimensional gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8065, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Naqavi, A ^a   Soderstrom K ^a   Haug, F J ^a   Paeder, V ^a   Scharf, T ^a   Herzig, H P ^a   Ballif, C ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diffraction grating; solar cell

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; BACK REFLECTORS; COMPREHENSIVE CONTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GUIDED MODES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MATERIAL PROPERTY; METALLIC GRATINGS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL GRATINGS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; SOLAR CELL FABRICATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EXPERIMENTS; MANUFACTURE; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; THIN FILMS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 79956189415     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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