UV-visible light-trapping structure of loosely packed submicrometer silica sphere for amorphous silicon solar cells

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1036-1038

  Huang, Wen Hsien ^a   Shieh, Jia Min ^a,b   Pan, Fu Ming ^a   Shen, Chang Hong ^b   Lien, Yu Chung ^b   Tsai, Min An ^a   Kuo, Hao Chung ^a   Dai, Bau Tong ^b   Yang, Fu Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL NANO DEVICE LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Omnidirectional reflector; photoresponse; silica sphere; UV visible

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED LAYERS; AMORPHOUS SI; FILLING DENSITY; GRADED REFRACTIVE INDICES; INCIDENT ANGLES; LIGHT SCATTER; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTOR; PHOTORESPONSES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARACTERISTICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICA SPHERE; SUBMICROMETERS; UV-VISIBLE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; MONOLAYERS; SILICA; SILICON;

SPHERES;

EID: 84862853737     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2012.2196974     Document Type: Article

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