Nanopatterned front contact for broadband absorption in ultra-thin amorphous silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Massiot, Inès ^a   Colin, Clément ^a,b   Péré Laperne, Nicolas ^a,e   Roca I Cabarrocas, Pere ^c   Sauvan, Christophe ^d   Lalanne, Philippe ^d   Pelouard, Jean Luc ^a   Collin, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b 6 quai Watier   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

^d Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^e SOFRADIR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; BROADBAND LIGHT; METALLIC NANOWIRES; SILICON ABSORBERS; SILVER ARRAYS; SILVER MIRROR; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; ULTRA-THIN; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84867777900     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4758468     Document Type: Article

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