Embedded biomimetic nanostructures for enhanced optical absorption in thin-film solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 104, 2011, Pages A757-A762

  Tsai, Min An ^a   Han, Hao Wei ^a   Tsai, Yu Lin ^a   Tseng, Ping Chen ^a   Yu, Peichen ^a,c   Kuo, Chung ^c   Shen, Chang Hong ^b   Shieh, Jia Min ^a,b   Lin, Shiuan Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL NANO DEVICE LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOMIMETICS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITRIDES; OPTIMIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

A-SI:H; ACTIVE LAYER; ANTI-REFLECTION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLAT CONTROL; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); INCIDENT ANGLES; INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS; LAYER BY LAYER; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PATTERNING METHODS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; THIN FILM MATERIAL; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; POWER SUPPLY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959880783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A757     Document Type: Article

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