Advances in light trapping for hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-34

  Sivec, Laura ^a   Yan, Baojie ^a   Yue, Guozhen ^a   Owens Mawson, Jessica ^a   Yang, Jeffrey ^a   Guha, Subhendu ^a  

^a UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous semiconductors; back reflector (BR); photovoltaic cells; silicon devices; solar energy; thin film devices

Indexed keywords

BACK REFLECTORS; CELL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC LAYER; FILL FACTOR; HIGH TEXTURE; HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON (NC-SI:H); INTRINSIC LAYER; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MATERIAL QUALITY; NANOCRYSTALLINES; NC-SI:H; SEED LAYER; SILICON DEVICES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; ZNO; ZNO LAYERS;

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HYDROGENATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILM DEVICES; ZINC OXIDE;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84871799155     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2216509     Document Type: Article

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