Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the optimization of subwavelength solar cell textures for light trapping

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1572-1576

  Ganapati, Vidya ^a   Miller, Owen D ^a   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

absorptivity; light trapping; photovoltaics; solar cells; subwavelength; surface texture

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVITIES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE TEXTURES;

OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACES; TEXTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84869416688     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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