Transparent conducting materials: Overview and recent results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8470, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Van Deelen, Joop ^a   Illiberi, Andrea ^a   Hovestad, Arjan ^a   Barbu, Ionut ^a   Klerk, Lennaert ^a   Buskens, Pascal ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Metal grids; Plasmonics; Thin film solar cells; Transparent conducting oxides; Transparent conductors

Indexed keywords

METAL GRID; PLASMONICS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84872841454     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.929685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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