Optimal optical designs for planar GaAs single-junction solar cells with textured and reflective surfaces

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8256, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Shi ^a   Ding, Ding ^a   Johnson, Shane R ^a   Zhang, Yong Hang ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

GaAs; Optical design; Single junction solar cell; Surface roughening

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DOPING PROFILES; ELECTRICAL DESIGN; GAAS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; MATERIAL QUALITY; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; PLANAR STRUCTURE; REFLECTIVE SURFACES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; SINGLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SINGLE-JUNCTION CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; SURFACE-ROUGHENING; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SURFACES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84859991777     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.909841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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