Design, fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal assisted thin film monocrystalline-silicon solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 104, 2012, Pages A465-A475

  Meng, Xianqin ^a,b,c   Depauw, Valérie ^d   Gomard, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Daif, Ounsi El ^d   Trompoukis, Christos ^d   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Jamois, Cécile ^a,b,c   Fave, Alain ^a   Dross, Frédéric ^d   Gordon, Ivan ^d   Seassa, Christian ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DESIGN; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS; WAVELENGTH;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; LASER HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84863747382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A465     Document Type: Article

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