Three-dimensional photonic crystal intermediate reflectors for enhanced light-trapping in tandem solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 3896-3900

  Üpping, Johannes ^a,b   Bielawny, Andreas ^a,b   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a,b   Beckers, Thomas ^c   Carius, Reinhard ^c   Rau, Uwe ^c   Fahr, Stefan ^d   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^d   Lederer, Falk ^d   Kroll, Matthias ^d   Pertsch, Thomas ^d   Steidl, Lorenz ^e   Zentel, Rudolf ^e  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon; inverted opal; photonic crystals; solar cells

Indexed keywords

INVERTED OPAL; INVERTED OPALS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ZNO;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; REFLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ZINC OXIDE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ALUMINUM; SILICON; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; SOLAR ENERGY;

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; PHOTONS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 80052424758     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201101419     Document Type: Article

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