Wave-optical studies of light trapping in submicrometre-textured ultra-thin crystalline silicon solar cells

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Chutinan, Alongkarn ^a   Li, Catherine Wei Wei ^a   Kherani, Nazir P ^a   Zukotynski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BACK REFLECTION; BIFACIAL SOLAR CELLS; C-SI SOLAR CELL; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METAL MIRROR; PHASE SHIFTED; SILVER MIRROR; TEXTURIZATION; ULTRA-THIN; WAVE OPTICS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; MIRRORS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79960215330     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/26/262001     Document Type: Article

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