Light harvesting by planar photonic crystals in solar cells: The case of amorphous silicon

Journal of Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gomard, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Meng, Xianqin ^a,b,c   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a,b   Hajjam, Khalil El ^a,c   Gerelli, Emmanuel ^a,c   Peretti, Romain ^a,b   Fave, Alain ^a,c   Orobtchouk, Regis ^a,c   Lemiti, Mustapha ^a,c   Seassal, Christian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

holographic lithography; hydrogenated amorphous silicon; photonic crystals; photovoltaic solar cell; thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITIES; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84856271949     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/14/2/024011     Document Type: Article

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