Photon management structures for solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8438, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bläsi, Benedikt ^a   Hauser, Hubert ^a   Walk, Christian ^a   Michl, Bernhard ^a   Guttowski, Aron ^a   Mellor, Alexander ^b   Benick, Jan ^a   Peters, Marius ^a   Jüchter, Sabrina ^a   Wellens, Christine ^a   Kübler, Volker ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Wolf, Andreas J ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Interference lithography; Microstructures; Nanoimprint lithography; Nanostructures; Photon management; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COHERENT WAVES; CROSSED GRATINGS; ETCHING MASKS; FEATURE SIZES; HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; HOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LIFT-OFF PROCESS; LINEAR GRATINGS; METAL NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; MICRO AND NANOSTRUCTURES; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; NANOIMPRINT PROCESS; PATTERN TRANSFERS; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PLASMONIC; REAR SIDE; REPLICATION PROCESS; REPLICATION TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL REGION; STRUCTURING PROCESS; TEXTURIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; UPSCALING;

MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; PHOTORESISTS; POLYSILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; TECHNOLOGY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84861923041     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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