Partially disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Oskooi, Ardavan ^a   Favuzzi, Pedro A ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Shigeta, Hiroaki ^a   Kawakami, Yoichi ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; INCIDENT RADIATION; LATTICE STRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NARROW BANDS; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; RESONANT PEAKS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84862576546     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4711144     Document Type: Article

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