Photonic and plasmonic crystal based enhancement of solar cells - Theory of overcoming the Lambertian limit

Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids

Volumn 358, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2289-2294

  Biswas, Rana ^a,b   Xu, Chun ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; BACK REFLECTORS; CELL ARCHITECTURES; CELL GEOMETRIES; CLASSICAL LIMITS; DIFFRACTION RESONANCE; LAMBERTIAN; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION LOSS; SCATTERING MATRICES; SOLAR ARCHITECTURE; TOP SURFACE; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; REFLECTION; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SILICON; SOLAR BUILDINGS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865739025     PISSN: 00223093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2011.12.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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