Optical enhancement and losses of pyramid textured thin-film silicon solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dewan, Rahul ^a   Vasilev, Ivaylo ^a   Jovanov, Vladislav ^a   Knipp, Dietmar ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL THICKNESS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRIC OPTICS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; OPTICAL ENHANCEMENTS; OPTICAL WAVE PROPAGATION; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; UPPER LIMITS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON;

EID: 79960531232     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3602092     Document Type: Article

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