Triangular metallic gratings for large absorption enhancement in thin film Si solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9458-9464

  Battal, Enes ^a   Yogurt, Taha Alper ^a   Aygun, Levent Erdal ^a   Okyay, Ali K ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ABSORPTIVITIES; ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; FABRICATION PROCESS; METALLIC CONTACTS; METALLIC GRATINGS; SI SOLAR CELLS; SILICON LAYER; SILICON THIN FILM; SINGLE LAYER; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

THIN FILMS;

METAL; SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84861121446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009458     Document Type: Article

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