Light trapping in solar cells: Analytical modeling

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Boccard, Mathieu ^a   Battaglia, Corsin ^a   Haug, Franz Josef ^a   Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXTENDED MODEL; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; SCATTERING EVENTS;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84867549584     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4758295     Document Type: Article

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