Light-trapping design of graphene transparent electrodes for efficient thin-film silicon solar cells

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 6245-6251

  Zhao, Yongxiang ^a,b   Chen, Fei ^b   Shen, Qiang ^b   Zhang, Lianmeng ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FILM THICKNESS; GRAPHENE; INDIUM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON CARBIDE; SILICON OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES;

COST-EFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; GRAPHENE FILMS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE ELECTRODES; ITO ELECTRODES; LIGHT TRAPPING STRUCTURES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84866326237     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006245     Document Type: Article

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