Enhanced power generation in concentrated photovoltaics using broadband antireflective coverglasses with moth eye structures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 106, 2012, Pages A916-A923

  Song, Young Min ^a   Jeong, Yonkil ^a   Yeo, Chan Il ^a   Lee, Yong Tak ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; GLASS; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; GLASS; LIGHT; MOTHS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

ANTIREFLECTIVE; FILL FACTOR; FLAT SURFACES; MOTH-EYE STRUCTURE; NANOMASKS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RANGE; TRANSMISSION BAND; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84869040234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A916     Document Type: Article

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