Light harvesting schemes for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3015-3019

  Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Boccard, Mathieu ^a   Battaglia, Corsin ^a   Bugnon, Gregory ^a   Charrière, Mathieu ^a   Garcia, Loïc ^a   Bonnet Eymard, Maximilien ^a   Escarre, Jordi ^a   Cuony, Peter ^a   Stuckelberger, Michael ^a   Parascandolo, Gaetano ^a   Hänni, Simon ^a   Löfgren, Linus ^a   Schüttauf, Jan Willem ^a   Ding, Laura ^a   Nicolay, Sylvain ^a   Meillaud, Fanny ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon; light trapping; photovoltaic cells; silicon; tandem cells; thin film

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; AS-GROWN; CELL DESIGN; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; HIGH POTENTIAL; INITIAL EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PIN DIODE; SILICON DEPOSITION; SILICON LAYER; STABILIZED EFFICIENCY; SUBSTRATE ROUGHNESS; SUPERSTRATES; TANDEM CELLS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THIN ABSORBERS; THIN FILM SILICON; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; ZNO;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION; ZINC OXIDE;

SILICON;

EID: 84869414425     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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