Design of high efficiency organic solar cell with light trapping

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 105, 2012, Pages A606-A621

  Song, L ^a   Uddin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SUBSTRATES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

CELL STRUCTURE; CYLINDRICAL SUBSTRATE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FINITE ELEMENT; GLASS SUBSTRATES; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LIGHT INCIDENT; LIGHT TRAPPING STRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; TRANSFER MATRIXES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84866237635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A606     Document Type: Article

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