Characterization of antireflection moth-eye film on crystalline silicon photovoltaic module

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 102, 2011, Pages A118-A125

  Yamada, Noboru ^a   Ijiro, Toshikazu ^a   Okamoto, Eiko ^b   Hayashi, Kentaro ^b   Masuda, Hideki ^c  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ANTIREFLECTION; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; INCIDENT ANGLES; MOTHEYE; OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT; PV MODULES; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SPECTRAL MATCHINGS; TILT ANGLE;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052516652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A118     Document Type: Article

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