Solar cell efficiency enhancement via light trapping in printable resonant dielectric nanosphere arrays

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 255-260

  Grandidier, Jonathan ^a   Weitekamp, Raymond A ^a,b   Deceglie, Michael G ^a   Callahan, Dennis M ^a   Battaglia, Corsin ^c   Bukowsky, Colton R ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^c   Grubbs, Robert H ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon; nanospheres; photonic crystal; photovoltaics; resonant dielectric structures; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ADHESION LAYER; CELL ARCHITECTURES; CHEMICAL CROSS-LINKING; COLLOIDAL MONOLAYERS; DEVICE SURFACES; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; FAR-FIELD; GRADED INDEX; IMPROVE-A; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT DEPOSITION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NEAR-FIELD; OTHER OPTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PROCESSING CONDITION; RESONANT DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES; SEM IMAGE; SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SPHERE ARRAY; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSFER METHOD; TRANSFER PRINTING;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CROSSLINKING; MONOLAYERS; NANOSPHERES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84874034980     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228690     Document Type: Article

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