Optimal design of light trapping in thin-film solar cells enhanced with graded SiNx and SiOxNy structure

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11121-11136

  Zhao, Yongxiang ^a,b   Chen, Fei ^a   Shen, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Lianmeng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FILM PREPARATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AG NANOPARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; DISCRETE MULTILAYERS; ELECTRIC-FIELD INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NONLINEAR PROFILES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; SILICON; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDES; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84861130184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011121     Document Type: Review

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