Optical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells with submicron periodic gratings and nonconformal layers

Energy Procedia

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 308-312

  Solntsev, S ^a   Zeman, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Light management; Photovoltaics; Simulation; Solar cells; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; AFM; FILM DEPOSITION; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NANO SCALE; OPTICAL MODELING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PERIODIC GRATINGS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SIMULATION; SUBMICRON; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WEAK ABSORPTION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEPOSITION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILMS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84855684267     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.10.196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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