Light trapping for thin silicon solar cells by femtosecond laser texturing

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1606-1608

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Lin, Yu Ting ^b   Sher, Meng Ju ^b   Mazur, Eric ^b   Branz, Howard M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

epitaxial silicon; femtosecond laser; Lambertian; laser texturing; light trapping

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SI; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; EPITAXIAL SILICON; LAMBERTIAN; LASER TEXTURING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICRON SCALE; NEAR-INFRARED PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR ABSORBERS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LIGHT;

EID: 84869407252     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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