Efficient optical absorption in thin-film solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 105, 2011, Pages A1165-A1174

  Yang, Lili ^a   Xuan, Yimin ^a,b   Tan, Junjie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; THIN FILMS; ABSORPTION;

A-SI:H; FABRY-PEROT RESONANCES; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); INCIDENT LIGHT; NONRESONANT; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 80052755650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.0A1165     Document Type: Article

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