Optical simulation of silicon thin-film solar cells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages 212-219

  Peters, M ^a,b   Blasi B ^b   Glunz, S W ^b   Aberle, A G ^a   Luther, J ^a   Battaglia, C ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Simulation; Textured superstrates; Thin film silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

FABRICATED STRUCTURES; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; RANDOM STRUCTURES; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE GEOMETRY; STRUCTURE SIZES; SUPERSTRATES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84860542476     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.02.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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