Effect of nanotextured back reflectors on light trapping in flexible silicon thin-film solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-57

  Cho, Jun Sik ^a   Baek, Sanghun ^a   Park, Sang Hyun ^a   Park, Joo Hyung ^a   Yoo, Jinsu ^a   Yoon, Kyung Hoon ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Back reflector; Light scattering; Short circuit current; Silicon thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; ABNORMAL GRAIN GROWTH; AG FILMS; BACK REFLECTORS; DEPOSITION TEMPERATURES; DIRECT CURRENT MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FILL FACTOR; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG WAVELENGTH; NANOTEXTURED; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAIN GROWTH; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILICON; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

SILVER;

EID: 84861095521     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.03.031     Document Type: Article

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