Broadband and omnidirectional anti-reflection layer for III/V multi-junction solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 308-314

  Diedenhofen, Silke L ^a,d   Grzela, Grzegorz ^a   Haverkamp, Erik ^b   Bauhuis, Gerard ^b   Schermer, John ^b   Rivas, Jaime Gómez ^a,c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anti reflection; III V solar cells; Semiconductor nanowires

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; ANTI-REFLECTION; BROAD SPECTRAL; COATED SUBSTRATES; DOUBLE LAYER ANTI-REFLECTION COATINGS; GRADED REFRACTIVE INDICES; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SUBSTRATES; ZINC SULFIDE;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84859519998     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.02.022     Document Type: Article

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