Light trapping by backside diffraction gratings in silicon solar cells revisited

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wellenzohn, Markus ^a   Hainberger, Rainer ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; GRATING PARAMETER; GRATING PERIODS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTERACTION LENGTH; LIGHT INCIDENCE; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG-WAVELENGTH PHOTONS; MODULATION DEPTH; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PERIOD LENGTH; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PROPAGATION ANGLE; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SILICON LAYER; SILICON THICKNESS; SIMULATION METHODS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84855460152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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