Broadband absorption enhancement in a-Si: H thin-film solar cells sandwiched by pyramidal nanostructured arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 105, 2012, Pages A589-A596

  Li, Chuanhao ^a,b   Xia, Liangping ^b   Gao, Hongtao ^b   Shi, Ruiying ^a   Sun, Chen ^a,b   Shi, Haofei ^c   Du, Chunlei ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

A-SI:H; ACTIVE LAYER; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; CAVITY RESONANCES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FABRY-PEROT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LAYER; GRADUAL CHANGES; LONG-WAVELENGTH-RANGE; NANOSTRUCTURED ARRAYS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84866233995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A589     Document Type: Article

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