Broadband antireflection and absorption enhancement by forming nano-patterned Si structures for solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 105, 2011, Pages A1051-A1056

  Liu, Y ^a   Sun, S H ^a   Xu, J ^a   Zhao, L ^b   Sun, H C ^a   Li, J ^a   Mu, W W ^a   Xu, L ^a   Chen, K J ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMORPHOUS FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LITHOGRAPHY; SILICON; SPHERES;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AMORPHOUS SI FILMS; ANTI-REFLECTION; BROAD BAND OPTICAL ABSORPTION; BROADBAND ANTIREFLECTION; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SI SUBSTRATES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; ULTRA-THIN; WEIGHTED MEAN; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 80052775266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.0A1051     Document Type: Article

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