Influence of back contact roughness on light trapping and plasmonic losses of randomly textured amorphous silicon thin film solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Palanchoke, U ^a,b   Jovanov, V ^a   Kurz, H ^b   Dewan, R ^a   Magnus, P ^b   Stiebig, H ^b   Knipp, D ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Malibu GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON THIN FILMS; BACK CONTACT; LAYER STACKS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOTEXTURED; PLASMONIC;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; OPTICAL LOSSES; PLASMONS; TEXTURES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84874921340     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4793415     Document Type: Article

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